1 This document describes *changes* to previous versions, that might
2 affect Exim's operation, with an unchanged configuration file. For new
3 options, and new features, see the NewStuff file next to this ChangeLog.
9 JH/01 Avoid costly startup code when not strictly needed. This reduces time
10 for some exim process initialisations. It does mean that the logging
11 of TLS configuration problems is only done for the daemon startup.
13 JH/02 Early-pipelining support code is now included unless disabled in Makefile.
15 JH/03 DKIM verification defaults no long accept sha1 hashes, to conform to
16 RFC 8301. They can still be enabled, using the dkim_verify_hashes main
19 JH/04 Support CHUNKING from an smtp transport using a transport_filter, when
20 DKIM signing is being done. Previously a transport_filter would always
21 disable CHUNKING, falling back to traditional DATA.
23 JH/05 Regard command-line receipients as tainted.
25 JH/06 Bug 340: Remove the daemon pid file on exit, whe due to SIGTERM.
27 JH/07 Bug 2489: Fix crash in the "pam" expansion condition. It seems that the
28 PAM library frees one of the arguments given to it, despite the
29 documentation. Therefore a plain malloc must be used.
31 JH/08 Bug 2491: Use tainted buffers for the transport smtp context. Previously
32 on-stack buffers were used, resulting in a taint trap when DSN information
33 copied from a received message was written into the buffer.
35 JH/09 Bug 2493: Harden ARC verify against Outlook, whick has been seen to mix
36 the ordering of its ARC headers. This caused a crash.
38 JH/10 Bug 2492: Use tainted memory for retry record when needed. Previously when
39 a new record was being constructed with information from the peer, a trap
42 JH/11 Bug 2494: Unset the default for dmarc_tld_file. Previously a naiive
43 installation would get error messages from DMARC verify, when it hit the
44 nonexistent file indicated by the default. Distros wanting DMARC enabled
45 should both provide the file and set the option.
46 Also enforce no DMARC verification for command-line sourced messages.
48 JH/12 Fix an uninitialised flag in early-pipelining. Previously connections
49 could, depending on the platform, hang at the STARTTLS response.
51 JH/13 Bug 2498: Reset a counter used for ARC verify before handling another
52 message on a connection. Previously if one message had ARC headers and
53 the following one did not, a crash could result when adding an
54 Authentication-Results: header.
56 JH/14 Bug 2500: Rewind some of the common-coding in string handling between the
57 Exim main code and Exim-related utities. The introduction of taint
58 tracking also did many adjustments to string handling. Since then, eximon
59 frequently terminated with an assert failure.
61 JH/15 When PIPELINING, synch after every hundred or so RCPT commands sent and
62 check for 452 responses. This slightly helps the inefficieny of doing
63 a large alias-expansion into a recipient-limited target. The max_rcpt
64 transport option still applies (and at the current default, will override
65 the new feature). The check is done for either cause of synch, and forces
66 a fast-retry of all 452'd recipients using a new MAIL FROM on the same
67 connection. The new facility is not tunable at this time.
69 JH/16 Fix the variables set by the gsasl authenticator. Previously a pointer to
70 library live data was being used, so the results became garbage. Make
71 copies while it is still usable.
73 JH/17 Logging: when the deliver_time selector ise set, include the DT= field
74 on delivery deferred (==) and failed (**) lines (if a delivery was
75 attemtped). Previously it was only on completion (=>) lines.
77 JH/18 Authentication: the gsasl driver not provides the $authN variables in time
78 for the expansion of the server_scram_iter and server_scram_salt options.
80 WB/01 SPF: DNS lookups for the obsolete SPF RR type done by the libspf2 library
81 are now specifically given a NO_DATA response without hitting the system
82 resolver. The library goes on to do the now-standard TXT lookup.
83 Use of dnsdb lookups is not affected.
85 JH/19 Bug 2507: Modules: on handling a dynamic-module (lookups) open failure,
86 only retrieve the errormessage once. Previously two calls to dlerror()
87 were used, and the second one (for mainlog/paniclog) retrieved null
90 JH/20 Taint checking: disallow use of tainted data for
91 - the appendfile transport file and directory options
92 - the pipe transport command
93 - the autoreply transport file, log and once options
94 - file names used by the redirect router (including filter files)
96 - paths used by single-key lookups
97 Previously this was permitted.
99 JH/21 Bug 2501: Fix init call in the heimdal authenticator. Previously it
100 adjusted the size of a major service buffer; this failed because the
101 buffer was in use at the time. Change to a compile-time increase in the
102 buffer size, when this authenticator is compiled into exim.
104 JH/22 Taint-checking: move to safe-mode taint checking on all platforms. The
105 previous fast-mode was untenable in the face of glibs using mmap to
106 support larger malloc requests.
108 PP/01 Update the openssl_options possible values through OpenSSL 1.1.1c.
109 New values supported, if defined on system where compiled:
110 allow_no_dhe_kex, cryptopro_tlsext_bug, enable_middlebox_compat,
111 no_anti_replay, no_encrypt_then_mac, prioritize_chacha, tlsext_padding
113 JH/23 Performance improvement in the initial phase of a two-pass queue run. By
114 running a limited number of proceses in parallel, a benefit is gained. The
115 amount varies with the platform hardware and load. The use of the option
116 queue_run_in_order means we cannot do this, as ordering becomes
119 JH/24 Bug 2524: fix the cyrus_sasl auth driver gssapi usage. A previous fix
120 had introduced a string-copy (for ensuring NUL-termination) which was not
121 appropriate for that case, which can include embedded NUL bytes in the
122 block of data. Investigation showed the copy to actually be needless, the
123 data being length-specified.
125 JH/25 Fix use of concurrent TLS connections under GnuTLS. When a callout was
126 done during a receiving connection, and both used TLS, global info was
127 used rather than per-connection info for tracking the state of data
128 queued for transmission. This could result in a connection hang.
130 JH/26 Fix use of the SIZE parameter on MAIL commands, on continued connections.
131 Previously, when delivering serveral messages down a single connection
132 only the first would provide a SIZE. This was due to the size information
133 not being properly tracked.
135 JH/27 Bug 2530: When operating in a timezone with sub-minute offset, such as
136 TAI (at 37 seconds currently), pretend to be in UTC for time-related
137 expansion and logging. Previously, spurious values such as a future
138 minute could be seen.
140 JH/28 Bug 2533: Fix expansion of ${tr } item. When called in some situations
141 it could crash from a null-deref. This could also affect the
142 ${addresses: } operator and ${readsock } item.
144 JH/29 Bug 2537: Fix $mime_part_count. When a single connection had a non-mime
145 message following a mime one, the variable was not reset.
147 JH/30 When an pipelined-connect fails at the first response, assume incorrect
148 cached capability (perhaps the peer reneged?) and immediately retry in
151 JH/31 Fix spurious detection of timeout while writing to transport filter.
153 JH/32 Bug 2541: Fix segfault on bad cmdline -f (sender) argument. Previously
154 an attempt to copy the string was made before checking it.
156 JH/33 Fix the dsearch lookup to return an untainted result. Previously the
157 taint of the lookup key was maintained; we now regard the presence in the
158 filesystem as sufficient validation.
160 JH/34 Fix the readsocket expansion to not segfault when an empty "options"
161 argument is supplied.
163 JH/35 The dsearch lookup now requires that the directory is an absolute path.
164 Previously this was not checked, and nonempty relative paths made an
165 access under Exim's current working directory.
167 JH/36 Bug 2554: Fix msg:defer event for the hosts_max_try_hardlimit case.
168 Previously no event was raised.
170 JH/37 Bug 2552: Fix the check on spool space during reception to use the SIZE
171 parameter supplied by the sender MAIL FROM command. Previously it was
172 ignored, and only the check_spool_space option value for the required
175 JH/38 Fix $dkim_key_length. This should, after a DKIM verification, present
176 the size of the signing public-key. Previously it was instead giving
177 the size of the signature hash.
179 JH/39 DKIM verification: the RFC 8301 restriction on sizes of RSA keys is now
180 the default. See the (new) dkim_verify_min_keysizes option.
182 JH/40 Fix a memory-handling bug: when a connection carried multiple messages
183 and an ACL use a lookup for checking either the local_part or domain,
184 stale data could be accessed. Ensure that variable references are
185 dropped between messages.
187 JH/41 Bug 2571: Fix SPA authenticator. Running as a server, an offset supplied
188 by the client was not checked as pointing within response data before
189 being used. A malicious client could thus cause an out-of-bounds read and
190 possibly gain authentication. Fix by adding the check.
192 JH/42 Internationalisation: change the default for downconversion in the smtp
193 transport to be "if needed". Previously it was "as previously set" for
194 the message, which usually meant "if needed" for message-submission but
195 "no" for everything else. However, MTAs have been seen using SMTPUTF8
196 even when the envelope addresses did not need it, resulting in forwarding
197 failures to non-supporting MTAs. A downconvert in such cases will be
198 a no-op on the addresses, merely dropping the use of SMTPUTF8 by the
199 transport. The change does mean that addresses needing conversion will
200 be converted when previously a delivery failure would occur.
202 JH/43 Fix possible long line in DSN. Previously when a very long SMTP error
203 response was received it would be used unchecked in a fail-DSN, violating
204 standards on line-length limits. Truncate if needed.
206 HS/01 Remove parameters of the link to www.open-spf.org. The linked form
213 JH/01 OpenSSL: With debug enabled output keying information sufficient, server
214 side, to decode a TLS 1.3 packet capture.
216 JH/02 OpenSSL: Suppress the sending of (stateful) TLS1.3 session tickets.
217 Previously the default library behaviour applied, sending two, each in
220 JH/03 Debug output for ACL now gives the config file name and line number for
223 JH/04 The default received_header_text now uses the RFC 8314 tls cipher clause.
225 JH/05 DKIM: ensure that dkim_domain elements are lowercased before use.
227 JH/06 Fix buggy handling of autoreply bounce_return_size_limit, and a possible
228 buffer overrun for (non-chunking) other transports.
230 JH/07 GnuTLS: Our use of late (post-handshake) certificate verification, under
231 TLS1.3, means that a server rejecting a client certificate is not visible
232 to the client until the first read of encrypted data (typically the
233 response to EHLO). Add detection for that case and treat it as a failed
234 TLS connection attempt, so that the normal retry-in-clear can work (if
235 suitably configured).
237 JB/01 Bug 2375: fix expansions of 822 addresses having comments in local-part
238 and/or domain. Found and fixed by Jason Betts.
240 JH/08 Add hardening against SRV & TLSA lookups the hit CNAMEs (a nonvalid
241 configuration). If a CNAME target was not a wellformed name pattern, a
244 JH/09 Logging: Fix initial listening-on line for multiple ports for an IP when
245 the OS reports them interleaved with other addresses.
247 JH/10 OpenSSL: Fix aggregation of messages. Previously, when PIPELINING was
248 used both for input and for a verify callout, both encrypted, SMTP
249 responses being sent by the server could be lost. This resulted in
250 dropped connections and sometimes bounces generated by a peer sending
253 JH/11 Harden plaintext authenticator against a badly misconfigured client-send
254 string. Previously it was possible to cause undefined behaviour in a
255 library routine (usually a crash). Found by "zerons".
257 JH/12 Bug 2384: fix "-bP smtp_receive_timeout". Previously it returned no
260 JH/13 Bug 2386: Fix builds with Dane under LibreSSL 2.9.0 onward. Some old
261 API was removed, so update to use the newer ones.
263 JH/14 Bug 1891: Close the log file if receiving a non-smtp message, without
264 any timeout set, is taking a long time. Previously we would hang on to a
265 rotated logfile "forever" if the input was arriving with long gaps
266 (a previous attempt to fix addressed lack, for a long time, of initial
269 HS/01 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
270 shared (NFS) environment. The length of the tempfile name is now
271 4 + 16 ("hdr.$message_exim_id") which might break on file
272 systems which restrict the file name length to lower values.
275 HS/02 Bug 2390: Use message_id for tempfile creation to avoid races in a
276 shared (NFS) environment.
278 HS/03 Bug 2392: exigrep does case sensitive *option* processing (as it
279 did for all versions <4.90). Notably -M, -m, --invert, -I may be
282 JH/15 Use unsigned when creating bitmasks in macros, to avoid build errors
283 on some platforms for bit 31.
285 JH/16 GnuTLS: rework ciphersuite strings under recent library versions. Thanks
286 to changes apparently associated with TLS1.3 handling some of the APIs
287 previously used were either nonfunctional or inappropriate. Strings
288 like TLS1.3:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_PSS_RSAE_SHA256__AES_256_GCM__AEAD:256
289 and TLS1.2:ECDHE_SECP256R1__RSA_SHA256__AES_128_CBC__SHA256:128 replace
290 the previous TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256 .
291 This affects log line X= elements, the $tls_{in,out}_cipher variables,
292 and the use of specific cipher names in the encrypted= ACL condition.
294 JH/17 OpenSSL: the default openssl_options now disables ssl_v3.
296 JH/18 GnuTLS: fix $tls_out_ocsp under hosts_request_ocsp. Previously the
297 verification result was not updated unless hosts_require_ocsp applied.
299 JH/19 Bug 2398: fix listing of a named-queue. Previously, even with the option
300 queue_list_requires_admin set to false, non-admin users were denied the
303 JH/20 Bug 2389: fix server advertising of usable certificates, under GnuTLS in
304 directory-of-certs mode. Previously they were advertised despite the
307 JH/21 The smtp transport option "hosts_noproxy_tls" is now unset by default.
308 A single TCP connection by a client will now hold a TLS connection open
309 for multiple message deliveries, by default. Previoud the default was to
312 JH/22 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_dane" now enables all hosts by
313 default. If built with the facility, DANE will be used. The facility
314 SUPPORT_DANE is now enabled in the prototype build Makefile "EDITME".
316 JH/23 The build default is now for TLS to be included; the SUPPORT_TLS define
317 is replaced with DISABLE_TLS. Either USE_GNUTLS or (the new) USE_OPENSSL
318 must be defined and you must still, unless you define DISABLE_TLS, manage
319 the the include-dir and library-file requirements that go with that
320 choice. Non-TLS builds are still supported.
322 JH/24 Fix duplicated logging of peer name/address, on a transport connection-
325 JH/25 The smtp transport option "hosts_try_fastopen" now enables all hosts by
326 default. If the platform supports and has the facility enabled, it will
327 be requested on all coneections.
329 JH/26 The PIPE_CONNECT facility is promoted from experimental status and is now
330 controlled by the build-time option SUPPORT_PIPE_CONNECT.
332 PP/01 Unbreak heimdal_gssapi, broken in 4.92.
334 JH/27 Bug 2404: Use the main-section configuration option "dsn_from" for
335 success-DSN messages. Previously the From: header was always the default
336 one for these; the option was ignored.
338 JH/28 Fix the timeout on smtp response to apply to the whole response.
339 Previously it was reset for every read, so a teergrubing peer sending
340 single bytes within the time limit could extend the connection for a
341 long time. Credit to Qualsys Security Advisory Team for the discovery.
343 JH/29 Fix DSN Final-Recipient: field. Previously it was the post-routing
344 delivery address, which leaked information of the results of local
345 forwarding. Change to the original envelope recipient address, per
348 JH/30 Bug 2411: Fix DSN generation when RFC 3461 failure notification is
349 requested. Previously not bounce was generated and a log entry of
350 error ignored was made.
352 JH/31 Avoid re-expansion in ${sort } expansion. (CVE-2019-13917)
354 JH/32 Introduce a general tainting mechanism for values read from the input
355 channel, and values derived from them. Refuse to expand any tainted
356 values, to catch one form of exploit.
358 JH/33 Bug 2413: Fix dkim_strict option. Previously the expansion result
359 was unused and the unexpanded text used for the test. Found and
360 fixed by Ruben Jenster.
362 JH/34 Fix crash after TLS shutdown. When the TCP/SMTP channel was left open,
363 an attempt to use a TLS library read routine dereffed a nul pointer,
366 JH/35 Bug 2409: filter out-of-spec chars from callout response before using
367 them in our smtp response.
369 JH/36 Have the general router option retry_use_local_part default to true when
370 any of the restrictive preconditions are set (to anything). Previously it
371 was only for check_local user. The change removes one item of manual
372 configuration which is required for proper retries when a remote router
373 handles a subset of addresses for a domain.
375 JH/37 Appendfile: when evaluating quota use (non-quota_size_regex) take the file
376 link count into consideration.
378 HS/04 Fix handling of very log lines in -H files. If a -<key> <value> line
379 caused the extension of big_buffer, the following lines were ignored.
381 JH/38 Bug 1395: Teach the DNS negative-cache about TTL value from the SOA in
382 accordance with RFC 2308. Previously there was no expiry, so a longlived
383 receive process (eg. due to ACL delays) versus a short SOA value could
386 HS/05 Handle trailing backslash gracefully. (CVE-2019-15846)
388 JH/39 Promote DMARC support to mainline.
390 JH/40 Bug 2452: Add a References: header to DSNs.
392 JH/41 With GnuTLS 3.6.0 (and later) do not attempt to manage Diffie-Hellman
393 parameters. The relevant library call is documented as "Deprecated: This
394 function is unnecessary and discouraged on GnuTLS 3.6.0 or later. Since
395 3.6.0, DH parameters are negotiated following RFC7919."
397 HS/06 Change the default of dnssec_request_domains to "*"
399 JH/42 Bug 2545: Fix CHUNKING for all RCPT commands rejected. Previously we
400 carried on and emitted a BDAT command, even when PIPELINING was not
403 JH/43 Bug 2465: Fix taint-handling in dsearch lookup. Previously a nontainted
404 buffer was used for the filename, resulting in a trap when tainted
405 arguments (eg. $domain) were used.
407 JH/44 With OpenSSL 1.1.1 (onwards) disable renegotiation for TLS1.2 and below;
408 recommended to avoid a possible server-load attack. The feature can be
409 re-enabled via the openssl_options main cofiguration option.
411 JH/45 local_scan API: documented the current smtp_printf() call. This changed
412 for version 4.90 - adding a "more data" boolean to the arguments.
413 Bumped the ABI version number also, this having been missed previously;
414 release versions 4.90 to 4.92.3 inclusive were effectively broken in
415 respect of usage of smtp_printf() by either local_scan code or libraries
416 accessed via the ${dlfunc } expansion item. Both will need coding
417 adjustment for any calls to smtp_printf() to match the new function
418 signature; a FALSE value for the new argument is always safe.
420 JH/46 FreeBSD: fix use of the sendfile() syscall. The shim was not updating
421 the file-offset (which the Linux syscall does, and exim expects); this
422 resulted in an indefinite loop.
424 JH/47 ARC: fix crash in signing, triggered when a configuration error failed
425 to do ARC verification. The Authentication-Results: header line added
426 by the configuration then had no ARC item.
432 JH/01 Remove code calling the customisable local_scan function, unless a new
433 definition "HAVE_LOCAL_SCAN=yes" is present in the Local/Makefile.
435 JH/02 Bug 1007: Avoid doing logging from signal-handlers, as that can result in
436 non-signal-safe functions being used.
438 JH/03 Bug 2269: When presented with a received message having a stupidly large
439 number of DKIM-Signature headers, disable DKIM verification to avoid
440 a resource-consumption attack. The limit is set at twenty.
442 JH/04 Add variables $arc_domains, $arc_oldest_pass for ARC verify. Fix the
443 report of oldest_pass in ${authres } in consequence, and separate out
444 some descriptions of reasons for verification fail.
446 JH/05 Bug 2273: Cutthrough delivery left a window where the received messsage
447 files in the spool were present and unlocked. A queue-runner could spot
448 them, resulting in a duplicate delivery. Fix that by doing the unlock
449 after the unlink. Investigation by Tim Stewart. Take the opportunity to
450 add more error-checking on spoolfile handling while that code is being
453 PP/01 Refuse to open a spool data file (*-D) if it's a symlink.
454 No known attacks, no CVE, this is defensive hardening.
456 JH/06 Bug 2275: The MIME ACL unlocked the received message files early, and
457 a queue-runner could start a delivery while other operations were ongoing.
458 Cutthrough delivery was a common victim, resulting in duplicate delivery.
459 Found and investigated by Tim Stewart. Fix by using the open message data
460 file handle rather than opening another, and not locally closing it (which
461 releases a lock) for that case, while creating the temporary .eml format
462 file for the MIME ACL. Also applies to "regex" and "spam" ACL conditions.
464 JH/07 Bug 177: Make a random-recipient callout success visible in ACL, by setting
465 $sender_verify_failure/$recipient_verify_failure to "random".
467 JH/08 When generating a selfsigned cert, use serial number 1 since zero is not
470 JH/09 Bug 2274: Fix logging of cmdline args when starting in an unlinked cwd.
471 Previously this would segfault.
473 JH/10 Fix ARC signing for case when DKIM signing failed. Previously this would
476 JH/11 Bug 2264: Exim now only follows CNAME chains one step by default. We'd
477 like zero, since the resolver should be doing this for us, But we need one
478 as a CNAME but no MX presence gets the CNAME returned; we need to check
479 that doesn't point to an MX to declare it "no MX returned" rather than
480 "error, loop". A new main option is added so the older capability of
481 following some limited number of chain links is maintained.
483 JH/12 Add client-ip info to non-pass iprev ${authres } lines.
485 JH/13 For receent Openssl versions (1.1 onward) use modern generic protocol
486 methods. These should support TLS 1.3; they arrived with TLS 1.3 and the
487 now-deprecated earlier definitions used only specified the range up to TLS
488 1.2 (in the older-version library docs).
490 JH/14 Bug 2284: Fix DKIM signing for body lines starting with a pair of dots.
492 JH/15 Rework TLS client-side context management. Stop using a global, and
493 explicitly pass a context around. This enables future use of TLS for
494 connections to service-daemons (eg. malware scanning) while a client smtp
495 connection is using TLS; with cutthrough connections this is quite likely.
497 JH/16 Fix ARC verification to do AS checks in reverse order.
499 JH/17 Support a "tls" option on the ${readsocket } expansion item.
501 JH/18 Bug 2287: Fix the protocol name (eg utf8esmtp) for multiple messages
502 using the SMTPUTF8 option on their MAIL FROM commands, in one connection.
503 Previously the "utf8" would be re-prepended for every additional message.
505 JH/19 Reject MAIL FROM commands with SMTPUTF8 when the facility was not advertised.
506 Previously thery were accepted, resulting in issues when attempting to
507 forward messages to a non-supporting MTA.
509 PP/02 Let -n work with printing macros too, not just options.
511 JH/20 Bug 2296: Fix cutthrough for >1 address redirection. Previously only
512 one parent address was copied, and bogus data was used at delivery-logging
513 time. Either a crash (after delivery) or bogus log data could result.
514 Discovery and analysis by Tim Stewart.
516 PP/03 Make ${utf8clean:} expansion operator detect incomplete final character.
517 Previously if the string ended mid-character, we did not insert the
518 promised '?' replacement.
520 PP/04 Documentation: current string operators work on bytes, not codepoints.
522 JH/21 Change as many as possible of the global flags into one-bit bitfields; these
523 should pack well giving a smaller memory footprint so better caching and
524 therefore performance. Group the declarations where this can't be done so
525 that the byte-sized flag variables are not interspersed among pointer
526 variables, giving a better chance of good packing by the compiler.
528 JH/22 Bug 1896: Fix the envelope from for DMARC forensic reports to be possibly
529 non-null, to avoid issues with sites running BATV. Previously reports were
530 sent with an empty envelope sender so looked like bounces.
532 JH/23 Bug 2318: Fix the noerror command within filters. It wasn't working.
533 The ignore_error flag wasn't being returned from the filter subprocess so
534 was not set for later routers. Investigation and fix by Matthias Kurz.
536 JH/24 Bug 2310: Raise a msg:fail:internal event for each undelivered recipient,
537 and a msg:complete for the whole, when a message is manually removed using
538 -Mrm. Developement by Matthias Kurz, hacked on by JH.
540 JH/25 Avoid fixed-size buffers for pathnames in DB access. This required using
541 a "Gnu special" function, asprintf() in the DB utility binary builds; I
542 hope that is portable enough.
544 JH/26 Bug 2311: Fix DANE-TA verification under GnuTLS. Previously it was also
545 requiring a known-CA anchor certificate; make it now rely entirely on the
546 TLSA as an anchor. Checking the name on the leaf cert against the name
547 on the A-record for the host is still done for TA (but not for EE mode).
549 JH/27 Fix logging of proxy address. Previously, a pointless "PRX=[]:0" would be
550 included in delivery lines for non-proxied connections, when compiled with
551 SUPPORT_SOCKS and running with proxy logging enabled.
553 JH/28 Bug 2314: Fire msg:fail:delivery event even when error is being ignored.
554 Developement by Matthias Kurz, tweaked by JH. While in that bit of code,
555 move the existing event to fire before the normal logging of message
556 failure so that custom logging is bracketed by normal logging.
558 JH/29 Bug 2322: A "fail" command in a non-system filter (file) now fires the
559 msg:fail:internal event. Developement by Matthias Kurz.
561 JH/30 Bug 2329: Increase buffer size used for dns lookup from 2k, which was
562 far too small for todays use of crypto signatures stored there. Go all
563 the way to the max DNS message size of 64kB, even though this might be
564 overmuch for IOT constrained device use.
566 JH/31 Fix a bad use of a copy function, which could be used to pointlessly
567 copy a string over itself. The library routine is documented as not
568 supporting overlapping copies, and on MacOS it actually raised a SIGABRT.
570 JH/32 For main options check_spool_space and check_inode_space, where the
571 platform supports 64b integers, support more than the previous 2^31 kB
572 (i.e. more than 2 TB). Accept E, P and T multipliers in addition to
573 the previous G, M, k.
575 JH/33 Bug 2338: Fix the cyrus-sasl authenticator to fill in the
576 $authenticated_fail_id variable on authentication failure. Previously
579 JH/34 Increase RSA keysize of autogen selfsign cert from 1024 to 2048. RHEL 8.0
580 OpenSSL didn't want to use such a weak key. Do for GnuTLS also, and for
581 more-modern GnuTLS move from GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_LOW to
582 GNUTLS_SEC_PARAM_MEDIUM.
584 JH/35 OpenSSL: fail the handshake when SNI processing hits a problem, server
585 side. Previously we would continue as if no SNI had been received.
587 JH/36 Harden the handling of string-lists. When a list consisted of a sole
588 "<" character, which should be a list-separator specification, we walked
589 off past the nul-terimation.
591 JH/37 Bug 2341: Send "message delayed" warning MDNs (restricted to external
592 causes) even when the retry time is not yet met. Previously they were
593 not, meaning that when (say) an account was over-quota and temp-rejecting,
594 and multiple senders' messages were queued, only one sender would get
595 notified on each configured delay_warning cycle.
597 JH/38 Bug 2351: Log failures to extract envelope addresses from message headers.
599 JH/39 OpenSSL: clear the error stack after an SSL_accept(). With anon-auth
600 cipher-suites, an error can be left on the stack even for a succeeding
601 accept; this results in impossible error messages when a later operation
604 AM/01 Bug 2359: GnuTLS: repeat lowlevel read and write operations while they
605 return error codes indicating retry. Under TLS1.3 this becomes required.
607 JH/40 Fix the feature-cache refresh for EXPERIMENTAL_PIPE_CONNECT. Previously
608 it only wrote the new authenticators, resulting in a lack of tracking of
609 peer changes of ESMTP extensions until the next cache flush.
611 JH/41 Fix the loop reading a message header line to check for integer overflow,
612 and more-often against header_maxsize. Previously a crafted message could
613 induce a crash of the recive process; now the message is cleanly rejected.
615 JH/42 Bug 2366: Fix the behaviour of the dkim_verify_signers option. It had
616 been totally disabled for all of 4.91. Discovery and fix by "Mad Alex".
622 GF/01 DEFER rather than ERROR on redis cluster MOVED response.
623 When redis_servers is set to a list of > 1 element, and the Redis servers
624 in that list are in cluster configuration, convert the REDIS_REPLY_ERROR
625 case of MOVED into a DEFER case instead, thus moving the query onto the
626 next server in the list. For a cluster of N elements, all N servers must
627 be defined in redis_servers.
629 GF/02 Catch and remove uninitialized value warning in exiqsumm
630 Check for existence of @ARGV before looking at $ARGV[0]
632 JH/01 Replace the store_release() internal interface with store_newblock(),
633 which internalises the check required to safely use the old one, plus
634 the allocate and data copy operations duplicated in both (!) of the
635 extant use locations.
637 JH/02 Disallow '/' characters in queue names specified for the "queue=" ACL
638 modifier. This matches the restriction on the commandline.
640 JH/03 Fix pgsql lookup for multiple result-tuples with a single column.
641 Previously only the last row was returned.
643 JH/04 Bug 2217: Tighten up the parsing of DKIM signature headers. Previously
644 we assumed that tags in the header were well-formed, and parsed the
645 element content after inspecting only the first char of the tag.
646 Assumptions at that stage could crash the receive process on malformed
649 JH/05 Bug 2215: Fix crash associated with dnsdb lookup done from DKIM ACL.
650 While running the DKIM ACL we operate on the Permanent memory pool so that
651 variables created with "set" persist to the DATA ACL. Also (at any time)
652 DNS lookups that fail create cache records using the Permanent pool. But
653 expansions release any allocations made on the current pool - so a dnsdb
654 lookup expansion done in the DKIM ACL releases the memory used for the
655 DNS negative-cache, and bad things result. Solution is to switch to the
656 Main pool for expansions.
657 While we're in that code, add checks on the DNS cache during store_reset,
658 active in the testsuite.
659 Problem spotted, and debugging aided, by Wolfgang Breyha.
661 JH/06 Fix issue with continued-connections when the DNS shifts unreliably.
662 When none of the hosts presented to a transport match an already-open
663 connection, close it and proceed with the list. Previously we would
664 queue the message. Spotted by Lena with Yahoo, probably involving
667 JH/07 Bug 2214: Fix SMTP responses resulting from non-accept result of MIME ACL.
668 Previously a spurious "250 OK id=" response was appended to the proper
671 JH/08 The "support for" informational output now, which built with Content
672 Scanning support, has a line for the malware scanner interfaces compiled
673 in. Interface can be individually included or not at build time.
675 JH/09 The "aveserver", "kavdaemon" and "mksd" interfaces are now not included
676 by the template makefile "src/EDITME". The "STREAM" support for an older
677 ClamAV interface method is removed.
679 JH/10 Bug 2223: Fix mysql lookup returns for the no-data case (when the number of
680 rows affected is given instead).
682 JH/11 The runtime Berkeley DB library version is now additionally output by
683 "exim -d -bV". Previously only the compile-time version was shown.
685 JH/12 Bug 2230: Fix cutthrough routing for nonfirst messages in an initiating
686 SMTP connection. Previously, when one had more receipients than the
687 first, an abortive onward connection was made. Move to full support for
688 multiple onward connections in sequence, handling cutthrough connection
689 for all multi-message initiating connections.
691 JH/13 Bug 2229: Fix cutthrough routing for nonstandard port numbers defined by
692 routers. Previously, a multi-recipient message would fail to match the
693 onward-connection opened for the first recipient, and cause its closure.
695 JH/14 Bug 2174: A timeout on connect for a callout was also erroneously seen as
696 a timeout on read on a GnuTLS initiating connection, resulting in the
697 initiating connection being dropped. This mattered most when the callout
698 was marked defer_ok. Fix to keep the two timeout-detection methods
701 JH/15 Relax results from ACL control request to enable cutthrough, in
702 unsupported situations, from error to silently (except under debug)
703 ignoring. This covers use with PRDR, frozen messages, queue-only and
706 HS/01 Fix Buffer overflow in base64d() (CVE-2018-6789)
708 JH/16 Fix bug in DKIM verify: a buffer overflow could corrupt the malloc
709 metadata, resulting in a crash in free().
711 PP/01 Fix broken Heimdal GSSAPI authenticator integration.
712 Broken in f2ed27cf5, missing an equals sign for specified-initialisers.
713 Broken also in d185889f4, with init system revamp.
715 JH/17 Bug 2113: Fix conversation closedown with the Avast malware scanner.
716 Previously we abruptly closed the connection after reading a malware-
717 found indication; now we go on to read the "scan ok" response line,
720 JH/18 Bug 2239: Enforce non-usability of control=utf8_downconvert in the mail
721 ACL. Previously, a crash would result.
723 JH/19 Speed up macro lookups during configuration file read, by skipping non-
724 macro text after a replacement (previously it was only once per line) and
725 by skipping builtin macros when searching for an uppercase lead character.
727 JH/20 DANE support moved from Experimental to mainline. The Makefile control
728 for the build is renamed.
730 JH/21 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS. A buffer
731 was allocated for every new TLS startup, meaning one per message. Fix
732 by only allocating once (OpenSSL) or freeing on TLS-close (GnuTLS).
734 JH/22 Bug 2236: When a DKIM verification result is overridden by ACL, DMARC
735 reported the original. Fix to report (as far as possible) the ACL
736 result replacing the original.
738 JH/23 Fix memory leak during multi-message connections using STARTTLS under
739 OpenSSL. Certificate information is loaded for every new TLS startup,
740 and the resources needed to be freed.
742 JH/24 Bug 2242: Fix exim_dbmbuild to permit directoryless filenames.
744 JH/25 Fix utf8_downconvert propagation through a redirect router. Previously it
747 JH/26 Bug 2253: For logging delivery lines under PRDR, append the overall
748 DATA response info to the (existing) per-recipient response info for
749 the "C=" log element. It can have useful tracking info from the
750 destination system. Patch from Simon Arlott.
752 JH/27 Bug 2251: Fix ldap lookups that return a single attribute having zero-
753 length value. Previously this would segfault.
755 HS/02 Support Avast multiline protoocol, this allows passing flags to
756 newer versions of the scanner.
758 JH/28 Ensure that variables possibly set during message acceptance are marked
759 dead before release of memory in the daemon loop. This stops complaints
760 about them when the debug_store option is enabled. Discovered specifically
761 for sender_rate_period, but applies to a whole set of variables.
762 Do the same for the queue-runner and queue-list loops, for variables set
763 from spool message files. Do the same for the SMTP per-message loop, for
764 certain variables indirectly set in ACL operations.
766 JH/29 Bug 2250: Fix a longstanding bug in heavily-pipelined SMTP input (such
767 as a multi-recipient message from a mailinglist manager). The coding had
768 an arbitrary cutoff number of characters while checking for more input;
769 enforced by writing a NUL into the buffer. This corrupted long / fast
770 input. The problem was exposed more widely when more pipelineing of SMTP
771 responses was introduced, and one Exim system was feeding another.
772 The symptom is log complaints of SMTP syntax error (NUL chars) on the
773 receiving system, and refused recipients seen by the sending system
774 (propating to people being dropped from mailing lists).
775 Discovered and pinpointed by David Carter.
777 JH/30 The (EXPERIMENTAL_DMARC) variable $dmarc_ar_header is withdrawn, being
778 replaced by the ${authresults } expansion.
780 JH/31 Bug 2257: Fix pipe transport to not use a socket-only syscall.
782 HS/03 Set a handler for SIGTERM and call exit(3) if running as PID 1. This
783 allows proper process termination in container environments.
785 JH/32 Bug 2258: Fix spool_wireformat in combination with LMTP transport.
786 Previously the "final dot" had a newline after it; ensure it is CR,LF.
788 JH/33 SPF: remove support for the "spf" ACL condition outcome values "err_temp"
789 and "err_perm", deprecated since 4.83 when the RFC-defined words
790 "temperror" and "permerror" were introduced.
792 JH/34 Re-introduce enforcement of no cutthrough delivery on transports having
793 transport-filters or DKIM-signing. The restriction was lost in the
794 consolidation of verify-callout and delivery SMTP handling.
795 Extend the restriction to also cover ARC-signing.
797 JH/35 Cutthrough: for a final-dot response timeout (and nonunderstood responses)
798 in defer=pass mode supply a 450 to the initiator. Previously the message
801 PP/02 DANE: add dane_require_tls_ciphers SMTP Transport option; if unset,
802 tls_require_ciphers is used as before.
804 HS/03 Malware Avast: Better match the Avast multiline protocol. Add
805 "pass_unscanned". Only tmpfails from the scanner are written to
806 the paniclog, as they may require admin intervention (permission
807 denied, license issues). Other scanner errors (like decompression
808 bombs) do not cause a paniclog entry.
810 JH/36 Fix reinitialisation of DKIM logging variable between messages.
811 Previously it was possible to log spurious information in receive log
814 JH/37 Bug 2255: Revert the disable of the OpenSSL session caching. This
815 triggered odd behaviour from Outlook Express clients.
817 PP/03 Add util/renew-opendmarc-tlds.sh script for safe renewal of public
820 JH/38 DKIM: accept Ed25519 pubkeys in SubjectPublicKeyInfo-wrapped form,
821 since the IETF WG has not yet settled on that versus the original
822 "bare" representation.
824 JH/39 Fix syslog logging for syslog_timestamp=no and log_selector +millisec.
825 Previously the millisecond value corrupted the output.
826 Fix also for syslog_pid=no and log_selector +pid, for which the pid
827 corrupted the output.
833 JH/01 Rework error string handling in TLS interface so that the caller in
834 more cases is responsible for logging. This permits library-sourced
835 string to be attached to addresses during delivery, and collapses
836 pairs of long lines into single ones.
838 PP/01 Allow PKG_CONFIG_PATH to be set in Local/Makefile and use it correctly
839 during configuration. Wildcards are allowed and expanded.
841 JH/02 Rework error string handling in DKIM to pass more info back to callers.
842 This permits better logging.
844 JH/03 Rework the transport continued-connection mechanism: when TLS is active,
845 do not close it down and have the child transport start it up again on
846 the passed-on TCP connection. Instead, proxy the child (and any
847 subsequent ones) for TLS via a unix-domain socket channel. Logging is
848 affected: the continued delivery log lines do not have any DNSSEC, TLS
849 Certificate or OCSP information. TLS cipher information is still logged.
851 JH/04 Shorten the log line for daemon startup by collapsing adjacent sets of
852 identical IP addresses on different listening ports. Will also affect
855 PP/02 Bug 2070: uClibc defines __GLIBC__ without providing glibc headers;
856 add noisy ifdef guards to special-case this sillyness.
857 Patch from Bernd Kuhls.
859 JH/05 Tighten up the checking in isip4 (et al): dotted-quad components larger
860 than 255 are no longer allowed.
862 JH/06 Default openssl_options to include +no_ticket, to reduce load on peers.
863 Disable the session-cache too, which might reduce our load. Since we
864 currrectly use a new context for every connection, both as server and
865 client, there is no benefit for these.
866 GnuTLS appears to not support tickets server-side by default (we don't
867 call gnutls_session_ticket_enable_server()) but client side is enabled
868 by default on recent versions (3.1.3 +) unless the PFS priority string
871 PP/03 Add $SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH support for reproducible builds, per spec at
872 <https://reproducible-builds.org/specs/source-date-epoch/>.
874 JH/07 Fix smtp transport use of limited max_rcpt under mua_wrapper. Previously
875 the check for any unsuccessful recipients did not notice the limit, and
876 erroneously found still-pending ones.
878 JH/08 Pipeline CHUNKING command and data together, on kernels that support
879 MSG_MORE. Only in-clear (not on TLS connections).
881 JH/09 Avoid using a temporary file during transport using dkim. Unless a
882 transport-filter is involved we can buffer the headers in memory for
883 creating the signature, and read the spool data file once for the
884 signature and again for transmission.
886 JH/10 Enable use of sendfile in Linux builds as default. It was disabled in
887 4.77 as the kernel support then wasn't solid, having issues in 64bit
888 mode. Now, it's been long enough. Add support for FreeBSD also.
890 JH/11 Bug 2104: Fix continued use of a transport connection with TLS. In the
891 case where the routing stage had gathered several addresses to send to
892 a host before calling the transport for the first, we previously failed
893 to close down TLS in the old transport process before passing the TCP
894 connection to the new process. The new one sent a STARTTLS command
895 which naturally failed, giving a failed delivery and bloating the retry
896 database. Investigation and fix prototype from Wolfgang Breyha.
898 JH/12 Fix check on SMTP command input synchronisation. Previously there were
899 false-negatives in the check that the sender had not preempted a response
900 or prompt from Exim (running as a server), due to that code's lack of
901 awareness of the SMTP input buffering.
903 PP/04 Add commandline_checks_require_admin option.
904 Exim drops privileges sanely, various checks such as -be aren't a
905 security problem, as long as you trust local users with access to their
906 own account. When invoked by services which pass untrusted data to
907 Exim, this might be an issue. Set this option in main configuration
908 AND make fixes to the calling application, such as using `--` to stop
911 JH/13 Do pipelining under TLS. Previously, although safe, no advantage was
912 taken. Now take care to pack both (client) MAIL,RCPT,DATA, and (server)
913 responses to those, into a single TLS record each way (this usually means
914 a single packet). As a side issue, smtp_enforce_sync now works on TLS
917 PP/05 OpenSSL/1.1: use DH_bits() for more accurate DH param sizes. This
918 affects you only if you're dancing at the edge of the param size limits.
919 If you are, and this message makes sense to you, then: raise the
920 configured limit or use OpenSSL 1.1. Nothing we can do for older
923 JH/14 For the "sock" variant of the malware scanner interface, accept an empty
924 cmdline element to get the documented default one. Previously it was
927 JH/15 Fix a crash in the smtp transport caused when two hosts in succession
928 are unsuable for non-message-specific reasons - eg. connection timeout,
929 banner-time rejection.
931 JH/16 Fix logging of delivery remote port, when specified by router, under
934 PP/06 Repair manualroute's ability to take options in any order, even if one
935 is the name of a transport.
938 HS/01 Cleanup, prevent repeated use of -p/-oMr (CVE-2017-1000369)
940 JH/17 Change the list-building routines interface to use the expanding-string
941 triplet model, for better allocation and copying behaviour.
943 JH/18 Prebuild the data-structure for "builtin" macros, for faster startup.
944 Previously it was constructed the first time a possibly-matching string
945 was met in the configuration file input during startup; now it is done
948 JH/19 Bug 2141: Use the full-complex API for Berkeley DB rather than the legacy-
949 compatible one, to avoid the (poorly documented) possibility of a config
950 file in the working directory redirecting the DB files, possibly correpting
951 some existing file. CVE-2017-10140 assigned for BDB.
953 JH/20 Bug 2147: Do not defer for a verify-with-callout-and-random which is not
954 cache-hot. Previously, although the result was properly cached, the
955 initial verify call returned a defer.
957 JH/21 Bug 2151: Avoid using SIZE on the MAIL for a callout verify, on any but
958 the main verify for receipient in uncached-mode.
960 JH/22 Retire historical build files to an "unsupported" subdir. These are
961 defined as "ones for which we have no current evidence of testing".
963 JH/23 DKIM: enforce the DNS pubkey record "h" permitted-hashes optional field,
964 if present. Previously it was ignored.
966 JH/24 Start using specified-initialisers in C structure init coding. This is
967 a C99 feature (it's 2017, so now considered safe).
969 JH/25 Use one-bit bitfields for flags in the "addr" data structure. Previously
970 if was a fixed-sized field and bitmask ops via macros; it is now more
973 PP/07 GitHub PR 56: Apply MariaDB build fix.
974 Patch provided by Jaroslav Å karvada.
976 PP/08 Bug 2161: Fix regression in sieve quoted-printable handling introduced
977 during Coverity cleanups [4.87 JH/47]
978 Diagnosis and fix provided by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
980 JH/26 Fix DKIM bug: when the pseudoheader generated for signing was exactly
981 the right size to place the terminating semicolon on its own folded
982 line, the header hash was calculated to an incorrect value thanks to
983 the (relaxed) space the fold became.
985 HS/02 Fix Bug 2130: large writes from the transport subprocess were chunked
986 and confused the parent.
988 JH/27 Fix SOCKS bug: an unitialized pointer was deref'd by the transport process
989 which could crash as a result. This could lead to undeliverable messages.
991 JH/28 Logging: "next input sent too soon" now shows where input was truncated
994 JH/29 Fix queue_run_in_order to ignore the PID portion of the message ID. This
995 matters on fast-turnover and PID-randomising systems, which were getting
996 out-of-order delivery.
998 JH/30 Fix a logging bug on aarch64: an unsafe routine was previously used for
999 a possibly-overlapping copy. The symptom was that "Remote host closed
1000 connection in response to HELO" was logged instead of the actual 4xx
1003 JH/31 Fix CHUNKING code to properly flush the unwanted chunk after an error.
1004 Previously only that bufferd was discarded, resulting in SYMTP command
1007 JH/32 DKIM: when a message has multiple signatures matching an identity given
1008 in dkim_verify_signers, run the dkim acl once for each. Previously only
1009 one run was done. Bug 2189.
1011 JH/33 Downgrade an unfound-list name (usually a typo in the config file) from
1012 "panic the current process" to "deliberately defer". The panic log is
1013 still written with the problem list name; the mail and reject logs now
1014 get a temp-reject line for the message that was being handled, saying
1015 something like "domains check lookup or other defer". The SMTP 451
1016 message is still "Temporary local problem".
1018 JH/34 Bug 2199: Fix a use-after-free while reading smtp input for header lines.
1019 A crafted sequence of BDAT commands could result in in-use memory beeing
1020 freed. CVE-2017-16943.
1022 HS/03 Bug 2201: Fix checking for leading-dot on a line during headers reading
1023 from SMTP input. Previously it was always done; now only done for DATA
1024 and not BDAT commands. CVE-2017-16944.
1026 JH/35 Bug 2201: Flush received data in BDAT mode after detecting an error fatal
1027 to the message (such as an overlong header line). Previously this was
1028 not done and we did not exit BDAT mode. Followon from the previous item
1029 though a different problem.
1035 JH/01 Bug 1922: Support IDNA2008. This has slightly different conversion rules
1036 than -2003 did; needs libidn2 in addition to libidn.
1038 JH/02 The path option on a pipe transport is now expanded before use.
1040 PP/01 GitHub PR 50: Do not call ldap_start_tls_s on ldapi:// connections.
1041 Patch provided by "Björn", documentation fix added too.
1043 JH/03 Bug 2003: fix Proxy Protocol v2 handling: the address size field was
1044 missing a wire-to-host endian conversion.
1046 JH/04 Bug 2004: fix CHUNKING in non-PIPELINEING mode. Chunk data following
1047 close after a BDAT command line could be taken as a following command,
1048 giving a synch failure. Fix by only checking for synch immediately
1049 before acknowledging the chunk.
1051 PP/02 GitHub PR 52: many spelling fixes, which include fixing parsing of
1052 no_require_dnssec option and creation of _HAVE_TRANSPORT_APPEND_MAILDIR
1053 macro. Patches provided by Josh Soref.
1055 JH/05 Have the EHLO response advertise VRFY, if there is a vrfy ACL defined.
1056 Previously we did not; the RFC seems ambiguous and VRFY is not listed
1057 by IANA as a service extension. However, John Klensin suggests that we
1060 JH/06 Bug 2017: Fix DKIM verification in -bh test mode. The data feed into
1061 the dkim code may be unix-mode line endings rather than smtp wire-format
1062 CRLF, so prepend a CR to any bare LF.
1064 JH/07 Rationalise the coding for callout smtp conversations and transport ones.
1065 As a side-benfit, callouts can now use PIPELINING hence fewer round-trips.
1067 JH/08 Bug 2016: Fix DKIM verification vs. CHUNKING. Any BDAT commands after
1068 the first were themselves being wrongly included in the feed into dkim
1069 processing; with most chunk sizes in use this resulted in an incorrect
1070 body hash calculated value.
1072 JH/09 Bug 2014: permit inclusion of a DKIM-Signature header in a received
1073 DKIM signature block, for verification. Although advised against by
1074 standards it is specifically not ruled illegal.
1076 JH/10 Bug 2025: Fix reception of (quoted) local-parts with embedded spaces.
1078 JH/11 Bug 2029: Fix crash in DKIM verification when a message signature block is
1079 missing a body hash (the bh= tag).
1081 JH/12 Bug 2018: Re-order Proxy Protocol startup versus TLS-on-connect startup.
1082 It seems that HAProxy sends the Proxy Protocol information in clear and
1083 only then does a TLS startup, so do the same.
1085 JH/13 Bug 2027: Avoid attempting to use TCP Fast Open for non-transport client
1086 TCP connections (such as for Spamd) unless the daemon successfully set
1087 Fast Open mode on its listening sockets. This fixes breakage seen on
1088 too-old kernels or those not configured for Fast Open, at the cost of
1089 requiring both directions being enabled for TFO, and TFO never being used
1090 by non-daemon-related Exim processes.
1092 JH/14 Bug 2000: Reject messages recieved with CHUNKING but with malformed line
1093 endings, at least on the first header line. Try to canonify any that get
1094 past that check, despite the cost.
1096 JH/15 Angle-bracket nesting (an error inserted by broken sendmails) levels are
1097 now limited to an arbitrary five deep, while parsing addresses with the
1098 strip_excess_angle_brackets option enabled.
1100 PP/03 Bug 2018: For Proxy Protocol and TLS-on-connect, do not over-read and
1101 instead leave the unprompted TLS handshake in socket buffer for the
1102 TLS library to consume.
1104 PP/04 Bug 2018: Also handle Proxy Protocol v2 safely.
1106 PP/05 FreeBSD compat: handle that Ports no longer create /usr/bin/perl
1108 JH/16 Drop variables when they go out of scope. Memory management drops a whole
1109 region in one operation, for speed, and this leaves assigned pointers
1110 dangling. Add checks run only under the testsuite which checks all
1111 variables at a store-reset and panics on a dangling pointer; add code
1112 explicitly nulling out all the variables discovered. Fixes one known
1113 bug: a transport crash, where a dangling pointer for $sending_ip_address
1114 originally assigned in a verify callout, is re-used.
1116 PP/06 Drop '.' from @INC in various Perl scripts.
1118 PP/07 Switch FreeBSD iconv to always use the base-system libc functions.
1120 PP/08 Reduce a number of compilation warnings under clang; building with
1121 CC=clang CFLAGS+=-Wno-dangling-else -Wno-logical-op-parentheses
1122 should be warning-free.
1124 JH/17 Fix inbound CHUNKING when DKIM disabled at runtime.
1126 HS/01 Fix portability problems introduced by PP/08 for platforms where
1127 realloc(NULL) is not equivalent to malloc() [SunOS et al].
1129 HS/02 Bug 1974: Fix missing line terminator on the last received BDAT
1130 chunk. This allows us to accept broken chunked messages. We need a more
1131 general solution here.
1133 PP/09 Wrote util/chunking_fixqueue_finalnewlines.pl to help recover
1134 already-broken messages in the queue.
1136 JH/18 Bug 2061: Fix ${extract } corrupting an enclosing ${reduce } $value.
1138 JH/19 Fix reference counting bug in routing-generated-address tracking.
1144 JH/01 Use SIZE on MAIL FROM in a cutthrough connection, if the destination
1145 supports it and a size is available (ie. the sending peer gave us one).
1147 JH/02 The obsolete acl condition "demime" is removed (finally, after ten
1148 years of being deprecated). The replacements are the ACLs
1149 acl_smtp_mime and acl_not_smtp_mime.
1151 JH/03 Upgrade security requirements imposed for hosts_try_dane: previously
1152 a downgraded non-dane trust-anchor for the TLS connection (CA-style)
1153 or even an in-clear connection were permitted. Now, if the host lookup
1154 was dnssec and dane was requested then the host is only used if the
1155 TLSA lookup succeeds and is dnssec. Further hosts (eg. lower priority
1156 MXs) will be tried (for hosts_try_dane though not for hosts_require_dane)
1157 if one fails this test.
1158 This means that a poorly-configured remote DNS will make it incommunicado;
1159 but it protects against a DNS-interception attack on it.
1161 JH/04 Bug 1810: make continued-use of an open smtp transport connection
1162 non-noisy when a race steals the message being considered.
1164 JH/05 If main configuration option tls_certificate is unset, generate a
1165 self-signed certificate for inbound TLS connections.
1167 JH/06 Bug 165: hide more cases of password exposure - this time in expansions
1168 in rewrites and routers.
1170 JH/07 Retire gnutls_require_mac et.al. These were nonfunctional since 4.80
1171 and logged a warning sing 4.83; now they are a configuration file error.
1173 JH/08 Bug 1836: Fix crash in VRFY handling when handed an unqualified name
1174 (lacking @domain). Apply the same qualification processing as RCPT.
1176 JH/09 Bug 1804: Avoid writing msglog files when in -bh or -bhc mode.
1178 JH/10 Support ${sha256:} applied to a string (as well as the previous
1181 JH/11 Cutthrough: avoid using the callout hints db on a verify callout when
1182 a cutthrough deliver is pending, as we always want to make a connection.
1183 This also avoids re-routing the message when later placing the cutthrough
1184 connection after a verify cache hit.
1185 Do not update it with the verify result either.
1187 JH/12 Cutthrough: disable when verify option success_on_redirect is used, and
1188 when routing results in more than one destination address.
1190 JH/13 Cutthrough: expand transport dkim_domain option when testing for dkim
1191 signing (which inhibits the cutthrough capability). Previously only
1192 the presence of an option was tested; now an expansion evaluating as
1193 empty is permissible (obviously it should depend only on data available
1194 when the cutthrough connection is made).
1196 JH/14 Fix logging of errors under PIPELINING. Previously the log line giving
1197 the relevant preceding SMTP command did not note the pipelining mode.
1199 JH/15 Fix counting of empty lines in $body_linecount and $message_linecount.
1200 Previously they were not counted.
1202 JH/16 DANE: treat a TLSA lookup response having all non-TLSA RRs, the same
1203 as one having no matching records. Previously we deferred the message
1204 that needed the lookup.
1206 JH/17 Fakereject: previously logged as a normal message arrival "<="; now
1207 distinguished as "(=".
1209 JH/18 Bug 1867: make the fail_defer_domains option on a dnslookup router work
1210 for missing MX records. Previously it only worked for missing A records.
1212 JH/19 Bug 1850: support Radius libraries that return REJECT_RC.
1214 JH/20 Bug 1872: Ensure that acl_smtp_notquit is run when the connection drops
1215 after the data-go-ahead and data-ack. Patch from Jason Betts.
1217 JH/21 Bug 1846: Send DMARC forensic reports for reject and quarantine results,
1218 even for a "none" policy. Patch from Tony Meyer.
1220 JH/22 Fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries. If a port was
1221 specified by a router, it must also match for the delivery to be
1224 JH/23 Bug 1874: fix continued use of a connection for further deliveries.
1225 When one of the recipients of a message was unsuitable for the connection
1226 (has no matching addresses), we lost track of needing to mark it
1227 deferred. As a result mail would be lost.
1229 JH/24 Bug 1832: Log EHLO response on getting conn-close response for HELO.
1231 JH/25 Decoding ACL controls is now done using a binary search; the source code
1232 takes up less space and should be simpler to maintain. Merge the ACL
1233 condition decode tables also, with similar effect.
1235 JH/26 Fix problem with one_time used on a redirect router which returned the
1236 parent address unchanged. A retry would see the parent address marked as
1237 delivered, so not attempt the (identical) child. As a result mail would
1240 JH/27 Fix a possible security hole, wherein a process operating with the Exim
1241 UID can gain a root shell. Credit to http://www.halfdog.net/ for
1242 discovery and writeup. Ubuntu bug 1580454; no bug raised against Exim
1245 JH/28 Enable {spool,log} filesystem space and inode checks as default.
1246 Main config options check_{log,spool}_{inodes,space} are now
1247 100 inodes, 10MB unless set otherwise in the configuration.
1249 JH/29 Fix the connection_reject log selector to apply to the connect ACL.
1250 Previously it only applied to the main-section connection policy
1253 JH/30 Bug 1897: fix callouts connection fallback from TLS to cleartext.
1255 PP/01 Changed default Diffie-Hellman parameters to be Exim-specific, created
1256 by me. Added RFC7919 DH primes as an alternative.
1258 PP/02 Unbreak build via pkg-config with new hash support when crypto headers
1259 are not in the system include path.
1261 JH/31 Fix longstanding bug with aborted TLS server connection handling. Under
1262 GnuTLS, when a session startup failed (eg because the client disconnected)
1263 Exim did stdio operations after fclose. This was exposed by a recent
1264 change which nulled out the file handle after the fclose.
1266 JH/32 Bug 1909: Fix OCSP proof verification for cases where the proof is
1267 signed directly by the cert-signing cert, rather than an intermediate
1268 OCSP-signing cert. This is the model used by LetsEncrypt.
1270 JH/33 Bug 1914: Ensure socket is nonblocking before draining after SMTP QUIT.
1272 HS/01 Fix leak in verify callout under GnuTLS, about 3MB per recipient on
1273 an incoming connection.
1275 HS/02 Bug 1802: Do not half-close the connection after sending a request
1278 HS/03 Use "auto" as the default EC curve parameter. For OpenSSL < 1.0.2
1279 fallback to "prime256v1".
1281 JH/34 SECURITY: Use proper copy of DATA command in error message.
1282 Could leak key material. Remotely exploitable. CVE-2016-9963.
1288 JH/01 Bug 1664: Disable OCSP for GnuTLS library versions at/before 3.3.16
1289 and 3.4.4 - once the server is enabled to respond to an OCSP request
1290 it does even when not requested, resulting in a stapling non-aware
1291 client dropping the TLS connection.
1293 TF/01 Code cleanup: Overhaul the debug_selector and log_selector machinery to
1294 support variable-length bit vectors. No functional change.
1296 TF/02 Improve the consistency of logging incoming and outgoing interfaces.
1297 The I= interface field on outgoing lines is now after the H= remote
1298 host field, same as incoming lines. There is a separate
1299 outgoing_interface log selector which allows you to disable the
1302 JH/02 Bug 728: Close logfiles after a daemon-process "exceptional" log write.
1303 If not running log_selector +smtp_connection the mainlog would be held
1304 open indefinitely after a "too many connections" event, including to a
1305 deleted file after a log rotate. Leave the per net connection logging
1306 leaving it open for efficiency as that will be quickly detected by the
1307 check on the next write.
1309 HS/01 Bug 1671: Fix post transport crash.
1310 Processing the wait-<transport> messages could crash the delivery
1311 process if the message IDs didn't exist for some reason. When
1312 using 'split_spool_directory=yes' the construction of the spool
1313 file name failed already, exposing the same netto behaviour.
1315 JH/03 Bug 425: Capture substrings in $regex1, $regex2 etc from regex &
1316 mime_regex ACL conditions.
1318 JH/04 Bug 1686: When compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_DSN_INFO: Add extra information
1319 to DSN fail messages (bounces): remote IP, remote greeting, remote response
1320 to HELO, local diagnostic string.
1322 JH/05 Downgrade message for a TLS-certificate-based authentication fail from
1323 log line to debug. Even when configured with a tls authenticator many
1324 client connections are expected to not authenticate in this way, so
1325 an authenticate fail is not an error.
1327 HS/02 Add the Exim version string to the process info. This way exiwhat
1328 gives some more detail about the running daemon.
1330 JH/06 Bug 1395: time-limit caching of DNS lookups, to the TTL value. This may
1331 matter for fast-change records such as DNSBLs.
1333 JH/07 Bug 1678: Always record an interface option value, if set, as part of a
1334 retry record, even if constant. There may be multiple transports with
1335 different interface settings and the retry behaviour needs to be kept
1338 JH/08 Bug 1586: exiqgrep now refuses to run if there are unexpected arguments.
1340 JH/09 Bug 1700: ignore space & tab embedded in base64 during decode.
1342 JH/10 Bug 840: fix log_defer_output option of pipe transport
1344 JH/11 Bug 830: use same host for all RCPTS of a message, even under
1345 hosts_randomize. This matters a lot when combined with mua_wrapper.
1347 JH/12 Bug 1706: percent and underbar characters are no longer escaped by the
1348 ${quote_pgsql:<string>} operator.
1350 JH/13 Bug 1708: avoid misaligned access in cached lookup.
1352 JH/14 Change header file name for freeradius-client. Relevant if compiling
1353 with Radius support; from the Gentoo tree and checked under Fedora.
1355 JH/15 Bug 1712: Introduce $prdr_requested flag variable
1357 JH/16 Bug 1714: Permit an empty string as expansion result for transport
1358 option transport_filter, meaning no filtering.
1360 JH/17 Bug 1713: Fix non-PDKIM_DEBUG build. Patch from Jasen Betts.
1362 JH/18 Bug 1709: When built with TLS support, the tls_advertise_hosts option now
1363 defaults to "*" (all hosts). The variable is now available when not built
1364 with TLS, default unset, mainly to enable keeping the testsuite sane.
1365 If a server certificate is not supplied (via tls_certificate) an error is
1366 logged, and clients will find TLS connections fail on startup. Presumably
1367 they will retry in-clear.
1368 Packagers of Exim are strongly encouraged to create a server certificate
1369 at installation time.
1371 HS/03 Add -bP config_file as a synonym for -bP configure_file, for consistency
1372 with the $config_file variable.
1374 JH/19 Two additional event types: msg:rcpt:defer and msg:rcpt:host:defer. Both
1375 in transport context, after the attempt, and per-recipient. The latter type
1376 is per host attempted. The event data is the error message, and the errno
1377 information encodes the lookup type (A vs. MX) used for the (first) host,
1378 and the trailing two digits of the smtp 4xx response.
1380 GF/01 Bug 1715: Fix for race condition in exicyclog, where exim could attempt
1381 to write to mainlog (or rejectlog, paniclog) in the window between file
1382 creation and permissions/ownership being changed. Particularly affects
1383 installations where exicyclog is run as root, rather than exim user;
1384 result is that the running daemon panics and dies.
1386 JH/20 Bug 1701: For MySQL lookups, support MySQL config file option group names.
1388 JH/21 Bug 1720: Add support for priority groups and weighted-random proxy
1389 selection for the EXPERIMENTAL_SOCKS feature, via new per-proxy options
1390 "pri" and "weight". Note that the previous implicit priority given by the
1391 list order is no longer honoured.
1393 JH/22 Bugs 963, 1721: Fix some corner cases in message body canonicalization
1394 for DKIM processing.
1396 JH/23 Move SOCKS5 support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1397 by defining SUPPORT_SOCKS.
1399 JH/26 Move PROXY support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1400 by defining SUPPORT_PROXY. Note that the proxy_required_hosts option
1401 is renamed to hosts_proxy, and the proxy_{host,target}_{address,port}.
1402 variables are renamed to proxy_{local,external}_{address,port}.
1404 JH/27 Move Internationalisation support from Experimental to mainline, enabled
1405 for a build by defining SUPPORT_I18N
1407 JH/28 Bug 1745: Fix redis lookups to handle (quoted) spaces embedded in parts
1408 of the query string, and make ${quote_redis:} do that quoting.
1410 JH/29 Move Events support from Experimental to mainline, enabled by default
1411 and removable for a build by defining DISABLE_EVENT.
1413 JH/30 Updated DANE implementation code to current from Viktor Dukhovni.
1415 JH/31 Fix bug with hosts_connection_nolog and named-lists which were wrongly
1416 cached by the daemon.
1418 JH/32 Move Redis support from Experimental to mainline, enabled for a build
1419 by defining LOOKUP_REDIS. The libhiredis library is required.
1421 JH/33 Bug 1748: Permit ACL dnslists= condition in non-smtp ACLs if explicit
1422 keys are given for lookup.
1424 JH/34 Bug 1192: replace the embedded copy of PolarSSL RSA routines in the DKIM
1425 support, by using OpenSSL or GnuTLS library ones. This means DKIM is
1426 only supported when built with TLS support. The PolarSSL SHA routines
1427 are still used when the TLS library is too old for convenient support.
1429 JH/35 Require SINGLE_DH_USE by default in OpenSSL (main config option
1430 openssl_options), for security. OpenSSL forces this from version 1.1.0
1431 server-side so match that on older versions.
1433 JH/36 Bug 1778: longstanding bug in memory use by the ${run } expansion: A fresh
1434 allocation for $value could be released as the expansion processing
1435 concluded, but leaving the global pointer active for it.
1437 JH/37 Bug 1769: Permit a VRFY ACL to override the default 252 response,
1438 and to use the domains and local_parts ACL conditions.
1440 JH/38 Fix cutthrough bug with body lines having a single dot. The dot was
1441 incorrectly not doubled on cutthrough transmission, hence seen as a
1442 body-termination at the receiving system - resulting in truncated mails.
1443 Commonly the sender saw a TCP-level error, and retransmitted the message
1444 via the normal store-and-forward channel. This could result in duplicates
1445 received - but deduplicating mailstores were liable to retain only the
1446 initial truncated version.
1448 JH/39 Bug 1781: Fix use of DKIM private-keys having trailing '=' in the base-64.
1450 JH/40 Fix crash in queryprogram router when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_SRS.
1452 JH/41 Bug 1792: Fix selection of headers to sign for DKIM: bottom-up. While
1453 we're in there, support oversigning also; bug 1309.
1455 JH/42 Bug 1796: Fix error logged on a malware scanner connection failure.
1457 HS/04 Add support for keep_environment and add_environment options.
1459 JH/43 Tidy coding issues detected by gcc --fsanitize=undefined. Some remain;
1460 either intentional arithmetic overflow during PRNG, or testing config-
1463 JH/44 Bug 1800: The combination of a -bhc commandline option and cutthrough
1464 delivery resulted in actual delivery. Cancel cutthrough before DATA
1467 JH/45 Fix cutthrough, when connection not opened by verify and target hard-
1468 rejects a recipient: pass the reject to the originator.
1470 JH/46 Multiple issues raised by Coverity. Some were obvious or plausible bugs.
1471 Many were false-positives and ignorable, but it's worth fixing the
1474 JH/47 Fix build on HP-UX and older Solaris, which need (un)setenv now also
1475 for the new environment-manipulation done at startup. Move the routines
1476 from being local to tls.c to being global via the os.c file.
1478 JH/48 Bug 1807: Fix ${extract } for the numeric/3-string case. While preparsing
1479 an extract embedded as result-arg for a map, the first arg for extract
1480 is unavailable so we cannot tell if this is a numbered or keyed
1481 extraction. Accept either.
1487 JH/01 Bug 1545: The smtp transport option "retry_include_ip_address" is now
1490 JH/02 The smtp transport option "multi_domain" is now expanded.
1492 JH/03 The smtp transport now requests PRDR by default, if the server offers
1495 JH/04 Certificate name checking on server certificates, when exim is a client,
1496 is now done by default. The transport option tls_verify_cert_hostnames
1497 can be used to disable this per-host. The build option
1498 EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES is withdrawn.
1500 JH/05 The value of the tls_verify_certificates smtp transport and main options
1501 default to the word "system" to access the system default CA bundle.
1502 For GnuTLS, only version 3.0.20 or later.
1504 JH/06 Verification of the server certificate for a TLS connection is now tried
1505 (but not required) by default. The verification status is now logged by
1506 default, for both outbound TLS and client-certificate supplying inbound
1509 JH/07 Changed the default rfc1413 lookup settings to disable calls. Few
1512 JH/08 The EXPERIMENTAL_DSN compile option is no longer needed; all Delivery
1513 Status Notification (bounce) messages are now MIME format per RFC 3464.
1514 Support for RFC 3461 DSN options NOTIFY,ENVID,RET,ORCPT can be advertised
1515 under the control of the dsn_advertise_hosts option, and routers may
1516 have a dsn_lasthop option.
1518 JH/09 A timeout of 2 minutes is now applied to all malware scanner types by
1519 default, modifiable by a malware= option. The list separator for
1520 the options can now be changed in the usual way. Bug 68.
1522 JH/10 The smtp_receive_timeout main option is now expanded before use.
1524 JH/11 The incoming_interface log option now also enables logging of the
1525 local interface on delivery outgoing connections.
1527 JH/12 The cutthrough-routing facility now supports multi-recipient mails,
1528 if the interface and destination host and port all match.
1530 JH/13 Bug 344: The verify = reverse_host_lookup ACL condition now accepts a
1533 JH/14 Bug 1573: The spam= ACL condition now additionally supports Rspamd.
1534 Patch from Andrew Lewis.
1536 JH/15 Bug 670: The spamd_address main option (for the spam= ACL condition)
1537 now supports optional time-restrictions, weighting, and priority
1538 modifiers per server. Patch originally by <rommer@active.by>.
1540 JH/16 The spamd_address main option now supports a mixed list of local
1541 and remote servers. Remote servers can be IPv6 addresses, and
1542 specify a port-range.
1544 JH/17 Bug 68: The spamd_address main option now supports an optional
1545 timeout value per server.
1547 JH/18 Bug 1581: Router and transport options headers_add/remove can
1548 now have the list separator specified.
1550 JH/19 Bug 392: spamd_address, and clamd av_scanner, now support retry
1553 JH/20 Bug 1571: Ensure that $tls_in_peerdn is set, when verification fails
1556 JH/21 Support for the A6 type of dns record is withdrawn.
1558 JH/22 Bug 608: The result of a QUIT or not-QUIT toplevel ACL now matters
1559 rather than the verbs used.
1561 JH/23 Bug 1572: Increase limit on SMTP confirmation message copy size
1562 from 255 to 1024 chars.
1564 JH/24 Verification callouts now attempt to use TLS by default.
1566 HS/01 DNSSEC options (dnssec_require_domains, dnssec_request_domains)
1567 are generic router options now. The defaults didn't change.
1569 JH/25 Bug 466: Add RFC2322 support for MIME attachment filenames.
1570 Original patch from Alexander Shikoff, worked over by JH.
1572 HS/02 Bug 1575: exigrep falls back to autodetection of compressed
1573 files if ZCAT_COMMAND is not executable.
1575 JH/26 Bug 1539: Add timeout/retry options on dnsdb lookups.
1577 JH/27 Bug 286: Support SOA lookup in dnsdb lookups.
1579 JH/28 Bug 1588: Do not use the A lookup following an AAAA for setting the FQDN.
1580 Normally benign, it bites when the pair was led to by a CNAME;
1581 modern usage is to not canonicalize the domain to a CNAME target
1582 (and we were inconsistent anyway for A-only vs AAAA+A).
1584 JH/29 Bug 1632: Removed the word "rejected" from line logged for ACL discards.
1586 JH/30 Check the forward DNS lookup for DNSSEC, in addition to the reverse,
1587 when evaluating $sender_host_dnssec.
1589 JH/31 Check the HELO verification lookup for DNSSEC, adding new
1590 $sender_helo_dnssec variable.
1592 JH/32 Bug 1397: Enable ECDHE on OpenSSL, just the NIST P-256 curve.
1594 JH/33 Bug 1346: Note MAIL cmd seen in -bS batch, to avoid smtp_no_mail log.
1596 JH/34 Bug 1648: Fix a memory leak seen with "mailq" and large queues.
1598 JH/35 Bug 1642: Fix support of $spam_ variables at delivery time. Was
1599 documented as working, but never had. Support all but $spam_report.
1601 JH/36 Bug 1659: Guard checking of input smtp commands again pseudo-command
1602 added for tls authenticator.
1604 HS/03 Add perl_taintmode main config option
1610 TL/01 When running the test suite, the README says that variables such as
1611 no_msglog_check are global and can be placed anywhere in a specific
1612 test's script, however it was observed that placement needed to be near
1613 the beginning for it to behave that way. Changed the runtest perl
1614 script to read through the entire script once to detect and set these
1615 variables, reset to the beginning of the script, and then run through
1616 the script parsing/test process like normal.
1618 TL/02 The BSD's have an arc4random API. One of the functions to induce
1619 adding randomness was arc4random_stir(), but it has been removed in
1620 OpenBSD 5.5. Detect this OpenBSD version and skip calling this
1621 function when detected.
1623 JH/01 Expand the EXPERIMENTAL_TPDA feature. Several different events now
1624 cause callback expansion.
1626 TL/03 Bugzilla 1518: Clarify "condition" processing in routers; that
1627 syntax errors in an expansion can be treated as a string instead of
1628 logging or causing an error, due to the internal use of bool_lax
1629 instead of bool when processing it.
1631 JH/02 Add EXPERIMENTAL_DANE, allowing for using the DNS as trust-anchor for
1632 server certificates when making smtp deliveries.
1634 JH/03 Support secondary-separator specifier for MX, SRV, TLSA lookups.
1636 JH/04 Add ${sort {list}{condition}{extractor}} expansion item.
1638 TL/04 Bugzilla 1216: Add -M (related messages) option to exigrep.
1640 TL/05 GitHub Issue 18: Adjust logic testing for true/false in redis lookups.
1641 Merged patch from Sebastian Wiedenroth.
1643 JH/05 Fix results-pipe from transport process. Several recipients, combined
1644 with certificate use, exposed issues where response data items split
1645 over buffer boundaries were not parsed properly. This eventually
1646 resulted in duplicates being sent. This issue only became common enough
1647 to notice due to the introduction of connection certificate information,
1648 the item size being so much larger. Found and fixed by Wolfgang Breyha.
1650 JH/06 Bug 1533: Fix truncation of items in headers_remove lists. A fixed
1651 size buffer was used, resulting in syntax errors when an expansion
1654 JH/07 Add support for directories of certificates when compiled with a GnuTLS
1655 version 3.3.6 or later.
1657 JH/08 Rename the TPDA experimental facility to Event Actions. The #ifdef
1658 is EXPERIMENTAL_EVENT, the main-configuration and transport options
1659 both become "event_action", the variables become $event_name, $event_data
1660 and $event_defer_errno. There is a new variable $verify_mode, usable in
1661 routers, transports and related events. The tls:cert event is now also
1662 raised for inbound connections, if the main configuration event_action
1665 TL/06 In test suite, disable OCSP for old versions of openssl which contained
1666 early OCSP support, but no stapling (appears to be less than 1.0.0).
1668 JH/09 When compiled with OpenSSL and EXPERIMENTAL_CERTNAMES, the checks on
1669 server certificate names available under the smtp transport option
1670 "tls_verify_cert_hostname" now do not permit multi-component wildcard
1673 JH/10 Time-related extraction expansions from certificates now use the main
1674 option "timezone" setting for output formatting, and are consistent
1675 between OpenSSL and GnuTLS compilations. Bug 1541.
1677 JH/11 Fix a crash in mime ACL when meeting a zero-length, quoted or RFC2047-
1678 encoded parameter in the incoming message. Bug 1558.
1680 JH/12 Bug 1527: Autogrow buffer used in reading spool files. Since they now
1681 include certificate info, eximon was claiming there were spoolfile
1684 JH/13 Bug 1521: Fix ldap lookup for single-attr request, multiple-attr return.
1686 JH/14 Log delivery-related information more consistently, using the sequence
1687 "H=<name> [<ip>]" wherever possible.
1689 TL/07 Bug 1547: Omit RFCs from release. Draft and RFCs have licenses which
1690 are problematic for Debian distribution, omit them from the release
1693 JH/15 Updates and fixes to the EXPERIMENTAL_DSN feature.
1695 JH/16 Fix string representation of time values on 64bit time_t architectures.
1698 JH/17 Fix a null-indirection in certextract expansions when a nondefault
1699 output list separator was used.
1704 TL/01 Bugzilla 1506: Re-add a 'return NULL' to silence complaints from static
1705 checkers that were complaining about end of non-void function with no
1708 JH/01 Bug 1513: Fix parsing of quoted parameter values in MIME headers.
1709 This was a regression introduced in 4.83 by another bugfix.
1711 JH/02 Fix broken compilation when EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled.
1713 TL/02 Bug 1509: Fix exipick for enhanced spoolfile specification used when
1714 EXPERIMENTAL_DSN is enabled. Fix from Wolfgang Breyha.
1720 TF/01 Correctly close the server side of TLS when forking for delivery.
1722 When a message was received over SMTP with TLS, Exim failed to clear up
1723 the incoming connection properly after forking off the child process to
1724 deliver the message. In some situations the subsequent outgoing
1725 delivery connection happened to have the same fd number as the incoming
1726 connection previously had. Exim would try to use TLS and fail, logging
1727 a "Bad file descriptor" error.
1729 TF/02 Portability fix for building lookup modules on Solaris when the xpg4
1730 utilities have not been installed.
1732 JH/01 Fix memory-handling in use of acl as a conditional; avoid free of
1733 temporary space as the ACL may create new global variables.
1735 TL/01 LDAP support uses per connection or global context settings, depending
1736 upon the detected version of the libraries at build time.
1738 TL/02 Experimental Proxy Protocol support: allows a proxied SMTP connection
1739 to extract and use the src ip:port in logging and expansions as if it
1740 were a direct connection from the outside internet. PPv2 support was
1741 updated based on HAProxy spec change in May 2014.
1743 JH/02 Add ${listextract {number}{list}{success}{fail}}.
1745 TL/03 Bugzilla 1433: Fix DMARC SEGV with specific From header contents.
1746 Properly escape header and check for NULL return.
1748 PP/01 Continue incomplete 4.82 PP/19 by fixing docs too: use dns_dnssec_ok
1751 JH/03 Bugzilla 1157: support log_selector smtp_confirmation for lmtp.
1753 TL/04 Add verify = header_names_ascii check to reject email with non-ASCII
1754 characters in header names, implemented as a verify condition.
1755 Contributed by Michael Fischer v. Mollard.
1757 TL/05 Rename SPF condition results err_perm and err_temp to standardized
1758 results permerror and temperror. Previous values are deprecated but
1759 still accepted. In a future release, err_perm and err_temp will be
1760 completely removed, which will be a backward incompatibility if the
1761 ACL tests for either of these two old results. Patch contributed by
1762 user bes-internal on the mailing list.
1764 JH/04 Add ${utf8clean:} operator. Contributed by Alex Rau.
1766 JH/05 Bugzilla 305: Log incoming-TLS details on rejects, subject to log
1767 selectors, in both main and reject logs.
1769 JH/06 Log outbound-TLS and port details, subject to log selectors, for a
1772 JH/07 Add malware type "sock" for talking to simple daemon.
1774 JH/08 Bugzilla 1371: Add tls_{,try_}verify_hosts to smtp transport.
1776 JH/09 Bugzilla 1431: Support (with limitations) headers_add/headers_remove in
1777 routers/transports under cutthrough routing.
1779 JH/10 Bugzilla 1005: ACL "condition =" should accept values which are negative
1780 numbers. Touch up "bool" conditional to keep the same definition.
1782 TL/06 Remove duplicated language in spec file from 4.82 TL/16.
1784 JH/11 Add dnsdb tlsa lookup. From Todd Lyons.
1786 JH/12 Expand items in router/transport headers_add or headers_remove lists
1787 individually rather than the list as a whole. Bug 1452.
1789 Required for reasonable handling of multiple headers_ options when
1790 they may be empty; requires that headers_remove items with embedded
1791 colons must have them doubled (or the list-separator changed).
1793 TL/07 Add new dmarc expansion variable $dmarc_domain_policy to directly
1794 view the policy declared in the DMARC record. Currently, $dmarc_status
1795 is a combined value of both the record presence and the result of the
1798 JH/13 Fix handling of $tls_cipher et.al. in (non-verify) transport. Bug 1455.
1800 JH/14 New options dnssec_request_domains, dnssec_require_domains on the
1801 dnslookup router and the smtp transport (applying to the forward
1804 TL/08 Bugzilla 1453: New LDAP "SERVERS=" option allows admin to override list
1805 of ldap servers used for a specific lookup. Patch provided by Heiko
1808 JH/18 New options dnssec_lax, dnssec_strict on dnsdb lookups.
1809 New variable $lookup_dnssec_authenticated for observability.
1811 TL/09 Bugzilla 609: Add -C option to exiqgrep, specify which exim.conf to use.
1812 Patch submitted by Lars Timman.
1814 JH/19 EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP support under GnuTLS. Bug 1459.
1816 TL/10 Bugzilla 1454: New -oMm option to pass message reference to Exim.
1817 Requires trusted mode and valid format message id, aborts otherwise.
1818 Patch contributed by Heiko Schlichting.
1820 JH/20 New expansion variables tls_(in,out)_(our,peer)cert, and expansion item
1821 certextract with support for various fields. Bug 1358.
1823 JH/21 Observability of OCSP via variables tls_(in,out)_ocsp. Stapling
1824 is requested by default, modifiable by smtp transport option
1827 JH/22 Expansion operators ${md5:string} and ${sha1:string} can now
1828 operate on certificate variables to give certificate fingerprints
1829 Also new ${sha256:cert_variable}.
1831 JH/23 The PRDR feature is moved from being Experimental into the mainline.
1833 TL/11 Bug 1119: fix memory allocation in string_printing2(). Patch from
1834 Christian Aistleitner.
1836 JH/24 The OCSP stapling feature is moved from Experimental into the mainline.
1838 TL/12 Bug 1444: Fix improper \r\n sequence handling when writing spool
1839 file. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
1841 JH/25 Expand the coverage of the delivery $host and $host_address to
1842 client authenticators run in verify callout. Bug 1476.
1844 JH/26 Port service names are now accepted for tls_on_connect_ports, to
1845 align with daemon_smtp_ports. Bug 72.
1847 TF/03 Fix udpsend. The ip_connectedsocket() function's socket type
1848 support and error reporting did not work properly.
1850 TL/13 Bug 1495: Exiqgrep check if -C config file specified on cli exists
1851 and is readable. Patch from Andrew Colin Kissa.
1853 TL/14 Enhance documentation of ${run expansion and how it parses the
1854 commandline after expansion, particularly in the case when an
1855 unquoted variable expansion results in an empty value.
1857 JH/27 The TLS SNI feature was broken in 4.82. Fix it.
1859 PP/02 Fix internal collision of T_APL on systems which support RFC3123
1860 by renaming away from it. Addresses GH issue 15, reported by
1863 JH/28 Fix parsing of MIME headers for parameters with quoted semicolons.
1865 TL/15 SECURITY: prevent double expansion in math comparison functions
1866 (can expand unsanitized data). Not remotely exploitable.
1873 PP/01 Add -bI: framework, and -bI:sieve for querying sieve capabilities.
1875 PP/02 Make -n do something, by making it not do something.
1876 When combined with -bP, the name of an option is not output.
1878 PP/03 Added tls_dh_min_bits SMTP transport driver option, only honoured
1881 PP/04 First step towards DNSSEC, provide $sender_host_dnssec for
1882 $sender_host_name and config options to manage this, and basic check
1885 PP/05 DSCP support for outbound connections and control modifier for inbound.
1887 PP/06 Cyrus SASL: set local and remote IP;port properties for driver.
1888 (Only plugin which currently uses this is kerberos4, which nobody should
1889 be using, but we should make it available and other future plugins might
1890 conceivably use it, even though it would break NAT; stuff *should* be
1891 using channel bindings instead).
1893 PP/07 Handle "exim -L <tag>" to indicate to use syslog with tag as the process
1894 name; added for Sendmail compatibility; requires admin caller.
1895 Handle -G as equivalent to "control = suppress_local_fixups" (we used to
1896 just ignore it); requires trusted caller.
1897 Also parse but ignore: -Ac -Am -X<logfile>
1900 TL/01 Bugzilla 1258 - Refactor MAIL FROM optional args processing.
1902 TL/02 Add +smtp_confirmation as a default logging option.
1904 TL/03 Bugzilla 198 - Implement remove_header ACL modifier.
1905 Patch by Magnus Holmgren from 2007-02-20.
1907 TL/04 Bugzilla 1281 - Spec typo.
1908 Bugzilla 1283 - Spec typo.
1909 Bugzilla 1290 - Spec grammar fixes.
1911 TL/05 Bugzilla 1285 - Spec omission, fix docbook errors for spec.txt creation.
1913 TL/06 Add Experimental DMARC support using libopendmarc libraries.
1915 TL/07 Fix an out of order global option causing a segfault. Reported to dev
1916 mailing list by by Dmitry Isaikin.
1918 JH/01 Bugzilla 1201 & 304 - New cutthrough-delivery feature, with TLS support.
1920 JH/02 Support "G" suffix to numbers in ${if comparisons.
1922 PP/08 Handle smtp transport tls_sni option forced-fail for OpenSSL.
1924 NM/01 Bugzilla 1197 - Spec typo
1925 Bugzilla 1196 - Spec examples corrections
1927 JH/03 Add expansion operators ${listnamed:name} and ${listcount:string}
1929 PP/09 Add gnutls_allow_auto_pkcs11 option (was originally called
1930 gnutls_enable_pkcs11, but renamed to more accurately indicate its
1933 PP/10 Let Linux makefile inherit CFLAGS/CFLAGS_DYNAMIC.
1934 Pulled from Debian 30_dontoverridecflags.dpatch by Andreas Metzler.
1936 JH/04 Add expansion item ${acl {name}{arg}...}, expansion condition
1937 "acl {{name}{arg}...}", and optional args on acl condition
1940 JH/05 Permit multiple router/transport headers_add/remove lines.
1942 JH/06 Add dnsdb pseudo-lookup "a+" to do an "aaaa" + "a" combination.
1944 JH/07 Avoid using a waiting database for a single-message-only transport.
1945 Performance patch from Paul Fisher. Bugzilla 1262.
1947 JH/08 Strip leading/trailing newlines from add_header ACL modifier data.
1950 JH/09 Add $headers_added variable, with content from use of ACL modifier
1951 add_header (but not yet added to the message). Bugzilla 199.
1953 JH/10 Add 8bitmime log_selector, for 8bitmime status on the received line.
1954 Pulled from Bugzilla 817 by Wolfgang Breyha.
1956 PP/11 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
1958 (nb: this is the same fix as in Exim 4.80.1)
1960 JH/11 Add A= logging on delivery lines, and a client_set_id option on
1963 JH/12 Add optional authenticated_sender logging to A= and a log_selector
1966 PP/12 Unbreak server_set_id for NTLM/SPA auth, broken by 4.80 PP/29.
1968 PP/13 Dovecot auth: log better reason to rejectlog if Dovecot did not
1969 advertise SMTP AUTH mechanism to us, instead of a generic
1970 protocol violation error. Also, make Exim more robust to bad
1971 data from the Dovecot auth socket.
1973 TF/01 Fix ultimate retry timeouts for intermittently deliverable recipients.
1975 When a queue runner is handling a message, Exim first routes the
1976 recipient addresses, during which it prunes them based on the retry
1977 hints database. After that it attempts to deliver the message to
1978 any remaining recipients. It then updates the hints database using
1981 So if a recipient address works intermittently, it can get repeatedly
1982 deferred at routing time. The retry hints record remains fresh so the
1983 address never reaches the final cutoff time.
1985 This is a fairly common occurrence when a user is bumping up against
1986 their storage quota. Exim had some logic in its local delivery code
1987 to deal with this. However it did not apply to per-recipient defers
1988 in remote deliveries, e.g. over LMTP to a separate IMAP message store.
1990 This change adds a proper retry rule check during routing so that the
1991 final cutoff time is checked against the message's age. We only do
1992 this check if there is an address retry record and there is not a
1993 domain retry record; this implies that previous attempts to handle
1994 the address had the retry_use_local_parts option turned on. We use
1995 this as an approximation for the destination being like a local
1996 delivery, as in LMTP.
1998 I suspect this new check makes the old local delivery cutoff check
1999 redundant, but I have not verified this so I left the code in place.
2001 TF/02 Correct gecos expansion when From: is a prefix of the username.
2003 Test 0254 submits a message to Exim with the header
2007 When I ran the test suite under the user fanf2, Exim expanded
2008 the header to contain my full name, whereas it should have added
2009 a Resent-Sender: header. It erroneously treats any prefix of the
2010 username as equal to the username.
2012 This change corrects that bug.
2014 GF/01 DCC debug and logging tidyup
2015 Error conditions log to paniclog rather than rejectlog.
2016 Debug lines prefixed by "DCC: " to remove any ambiguity.
2018 TF/03 Avoid unnecessary rebuilds of lookup-related code.
2020 PP/14 Fix OCSP reinitialisation in SNI handling for Exim/TLS as server.
2021 Bug spotted by Jeremy Harris; was flawed since initial commit.
2022 Would have resulted in OCSP responses post-SNI triggering an Exim
2023 NULL dereference and crash.
2025 JH/13 Add $router_name and $transport_name variables. Bugzilla 308.
2027 PP/15 Define SIOCGIFCONF_GIVES_ADDR for GNU Hurd.
2028 Bug detection, analysis and fix by Samuel Thibault.
2029 Bugzilla 1331, Debian bug #698092.
2031 SC/01 Update eximstats to watch out for senders sending 'HELO [IpAddr]'
2033 JH/14 SMTP PRDR (http://www.eric-a-hall.com/specs/draft-hall-prdr-00.txt).
2034 Server implementation by Todd Lyons, client by JH.
2035 Only enabled when compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_PRDR. A new
2036 config variable "prdr_enable" controls whether the server
2037 advertises the facility. If the client requests PRDR a new
2038 acl_data_smtp_prdr ACL is called once for each recipient, after
2039 the body content is received and before the acl_smtp_data ACL.
2040 The client is controlled by both of: a hosts_try_prdr option
2041 on the smtp transport, and the server advertisement.
2042 Default client logging of deliveries and rejections involving
2043 PRDR are flagged with the string "PRDR".
2045 PP/16 Fix problems caused by timeouts during quit ACLs trying to double
2046 fclose(). Diagnosis by Todd Lyons.
2048 PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
2049 Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
2052 PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
2053 This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
2054 previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
2055 unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
2056 an empty string is now equivalent.
2058 PP/19 Renamed DNSSEC-enabling option to "dns_dnssec_ok", to make it
2059 clearer that Exim is using the DO (DNSSEC OK) EDNS0 resolver flag,
2060 not performing validation itself.
2062 PP/20 Added force_command boolean option to pipe transport.
2063 Patch from Nick Koston, of cPanel Inc.
2065 JH/15 AUTH support on callouts (and hence cutthrough-deliveries).
2068 TF/04 Added udpsend ACL modifier and hexquote expansion operator
2070 PP/21 Fix eximon continuous updating with timestamped log-files.
2071 Broken in a format-string cleanup in 4.80, missed when I repaired the
2072 other false fix of the same issue.
2073 Report and fix from Heiko Schlichting.
2076 PP/22 Guard LDAP TLS usage against Solaris LDAP variant.
2077 Report from Prashanth Katuri.
2079 PP/23 Support safari_ecdhe_ecdsa_bug for openssl_options.
2080 It's SecureTransport, so affects any MacOS clients which use the
2081 system-integrated TLS libraries, including email clients.
2083 PP/24 Fix segfault from trying to fprintf() to a NULL stdio FILE* if
2084 using a MIME ACL for non-SMTP local injection.
2085 Report and assistance in diagnosis by Warren Baker.
2087 TL/08 Adjust exiqgrep to be case-insensitive for sender/receiver.
2089 JH/16 Fix comparisons for 64b. Bugzilla 1385.
2091 TL/09 Add expansion variable $authenticated_fail_id to keep track of
2092 last id that failed so it may be referenced in subsequent ACL's.
2094 TL/10 Bugzilla 1375 - Prevent TLS rebinding in ldap. Patch provided by
2097 TL/11 Bugzilla 1382 - Option ldap_require_cert overrides start_tls
2098 ldap library initialization, allowing self-signed CA's to be
2099 used. Also properly sets require_cert option later in code by
2100 using NULL (global ldap config) instead of ldap handle (per
2101 session). Bug diagnosis and testing by alxgomz.
2103 TL/12 Enhanced documentation in the ratelimit.pl script provided in
2104 the src/util/ subdirectory.
2106 TL/13 Bug 1031 - Imported transport SQL logging patch from Axel Rau
2107 renamed to Transport Post Delivery Action by Jeremy Harris, as
2110 TL/14 Bugzilla 1217 - Redis lookup support has been added. It is only enabled
2111 when Exim is compiled with EXPERIMENTAL_REDIS. A new config variable
2112 redis_servers = needs to be configured which will be used by the redis
2113 lookup. Patch from Warren Baker, of The Packet Hub.
2115 TL/15 Fix exiqsumm summary for corner case. Patch provided by Richard Hall.
2117 TL/16 Bugzilla 1289 - Clarify host/ip processing when have errors looking up a
2118 hostname or reverse DNS when processing a host list. Used suggestions
2119 from multiple comments on this bug.
2121 TL/17 Bugzilla 1057 - Multiple clamd TCP targets patch from Mark Zealey.
2123 TL/18 Had previously added a -CONTINUE option to runtest in the test suite.
2124 Missed a few lines, added it to make the runtest require no keyboard
2127 TL/19 Bugzilla 1402 - Test 533 fails if any part of the path to the test suite
2128 contains upper case chars. Make router use caseful_local_part.
2130 TL/20 Bugzilla 1400 - Add AVOID_GNUTLS_PKCS11 build option. Allows GnuTLS
2131 support when GnuTLS has been built with p11-kit.
2137 PP/01 SECURITY: protect DKIM DNS decoding from remote exploit.
2139 This, or similar/improved, will also be change PP/11 of 4.82.
2145 PP/01 Handle short writes when writing local log-files.
2146 In practice, only affects FreeBSD (8 onwards).
2147 Bugzilla 1053, with thanks to Dmitry Isaikin.
2149 NM/01 Bugzilla 949 - Documentation tweak
2151 NM/02 Bugzilla 1093 - eximstats DATA reject detection regexps
2154 NM/03 Bugzilla 1169 - primary_hostname spelling was incorrect in docs.
2156 PP/02 Implemented gsasl authenticator.
2158 PP/03 Implemented heimdal_gssapi authenticator with "server_keytab" option.
2160 PP/04 Local/Makefile support for (AUTH|LOOKUP)_*_PC=foo to use
2161 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs.
2163 PP/05 Swapped $auth1/$auth2 for gsasl GSSAPI mechanism, to be more consistent
2164 with rest of GSASL and with heimdal_gssapi.
2166 PP/06 Local/Makefile support for USE_(GNUTLS|OPENSSL)_PC=foo to use
2167 `pkg-config foo` for cflags/libs for the TLS implementation.
2169 PP/07 New expansion variable $tls_bits; Cyrus SASL server connection
2170 properties get this fed in as external SSF. A number of robustness
2171 and debugging improvements to the cyrus_sasl authenticator.
2173 PP/08 cyrus_sasl server now expands the server_realm option.
2175 PP/09 Bugzilla 1214 - Log authentication information in reject log.
2176 Patch by Jeremy Harris.
2178 PP/10 Added dbmjz lookup type.
2180 PP/11 Let heimdal_gssapi authenticator take a SASL message without an authzid.
2182 PP/12 MAIL args handles TAB as well as SP, for better interop with
2183 non-compliant senders.
2184 Analysis and variant patch by Todd Lyons.
2186 NM/04 Bugzilla 1237 - fix cases where printf format usage not indicated
2187 Bug report from Lars Müller <lars@samba.org> (via SUSE),
2188 Patch from Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
2190 PP/13 tls_peerdn now print-escaped for spool files.
2191 Observed some $tls_peerdn in wild which contained \n, which resulted
2192 in spool file corruption.
2194 PP/14 TLS fixes for OpenSSL: support TLS 1.1 & 1.2; new "openssl_options"
2195 values; set SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY so that OpenSSL will retry a read
2196 or write after TLS renegotiation, which otherwise led to messages
2199 TK/01 Bugzilla 1239 - fix DKIM verification when signature was not inserted
2200 as a tracking header (ie: a signed header comes before the signature).
2201 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2203 JH/01 Bugzilla 660 - Multi-valued attributes from ldap now parseable as a
2204 comma-sep list; embedded commas doubled.
2206 JH/02 Refactored ACL "verify =" logic to table-driven dispatch.
2208 PP/15 LDAP: Check for errors of TLS initialisation, to give correct
2210 Report and patch from Dmitry Banschikov.
2212 PP/16 Removed "dont_insert_empty_fragments" from "openssl_options".
2213 Removed SSL_clear() after SSL_new() which led to protocol negotiation
2214 failures. We appear to now support TLS1.1+ with Exim.
2216 PP/17 OpenSSL: new expansion var $tls_sni, which if used in tls_certificate
2217 lets Exim select keys and certificates based upon TLS SNI from client.
2218 Also option tls_sni on SMTP Transports. Also clear $tls_bits correctly
2219 before an outbound SMTP session. New log_selector, +tls_sni.
2221 PP/18 Bugzilla 1122 - check localhost_number expansion for failure, avoid
2222 NULL dereference. Report and patch from Alun Jones.
2224 PP/19 DNS resolver init changes for NetBSD compatibility. (Risk of breakage
2225 on less well tested platforms). Obviates NetBSD pkgsrc patch-ac.
2226 Not seeing resolver debug output on NetBSD, but suspect this is a
2227 resolver implementation change.
2229 PP/20 Revert part of NM/04, it broke log_path containing %D expansions.
2230 Left warnings. Added "eximon gdb" invocation mode.
2232 PP/21 Defaulting "accept_8bitmime" to true, not false.
2234 PP/22 Added -bw for inetd wait mode support.
2236 PP/23 Added PCRE_CONFIG=yes support to Makefile for using pcre-config to
2237 locate the relevant includes and libraries. Made this the default.
2239 PP/24 Fixed headers_only on smtp transports (was not sending trailing dot).
2240 Bugzilla 1246, report and most of solution from Tomasz Kusy.
2242 JH/03 ${eval } now uses 64-bit and supports a "g" suffix (like to "k" and "m").
2243 This may cause build issues on older platforms.
2245 PP/25 Revamped GnuTLS support, passing tls_require_ciphers to
2246 gnutls_priority_init, ignoring Exim options gnutls_require_kx,
2247 gnutls_require_mac & gnutls_require_protocols (no longer supported).
2248 Added SNI support via GnuTLS too.
2249 Made ${randint:..} supplier available, if using not-too-old GnuTLS.
2251 PP/26 Added EXPERIMENTAL_OCSP for OpenSSL.
2253 PP/27 Applied dnsdb SPF support patch from Janne Snabb.
2254 Applied second patch from Janne, implementing suggestion to default
2255 multiple-strings-in-record handling to match SPF spec.
2257 JH/04 Added expansion variable $tod_epoch_l for a higher-precision time.
2259 PP/28 Fix DCC dcc_header content corruption (stack memory referenced,
2260 read-only, out of scope).
2261 Patch from Wolfgang Breyha, report from Stuart Northfield.
2263 PP/29 Fix three issues highlighted by clang analyser static analysis.
2264 Only crash-plausible issue would require the Cambridge-specific
2265 iplookup router and a misconfiguration.
2266 Report from Marcin Mirosław.
2268 PP/30 Another attempt to deal with PCRE_PRERELEASE, this one less buggy.
2270 PP/31 %D in printf continues to cause issues (-Wformat=security), so for
2271 now guard some of the printf checks behind WANT_DEEPER_PRINTF_CHECKS.
2272 As part of this, removing so much warning spew let me fix some minor
2273 real issues in debug logging.
2275 PP/32 GnuTLS was always using default tls_require_ciphers, due to a missing
2276 assignment on my part. Fixed.
2278 PP/33 Added tls_dh_max_bits option, defaulting to current hard-coded limit
2279 of NSS, for GnuTLS/NSS interop. Problem root cause diagnosis by
2280 Janne Snabb (who went above and beyond: thank you).
2282 PP/34 Validate tls_require_ciphers on startup, since debugging an invalid
2283 string otherwise requires a connection and a bunch more work and it's
2284 relatively easy to get wrong. Should also expose TLS library linkage
2287 PP/35 Pull in <features.h> on Linux, for some portability edge-cases of
2288 64-bit ${eval} (JH/03).
2290 PP/36 Define _GNU_SOURCE in exim.h; it's needed for some releases of
2291 GNU libc to support some of the 64-bit stuff, should not lead to
2292 conflicts. Defined before os.h is pulled in, so if a given platform
2293 needs to override this, it can.
2295 PP/37 Unbreak Cyrus SASL auth: SSF retrieval was incorrect, Exim thought
2296 protection layer was required, which is not implemented.
2297 Bugzilla 1254, patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2299 PP/38 Overhaul DH prime handling, supply RFC-specified DH primes as built
2300 into Exim, default to IKE id 23 from RFC 5114 (2048 bit). Make
2301 tls_dhparam take prime identifiers. Also unbreak combination of
2302 OpenSSL+DH_params+TLSSNI.
2304 PP/39 Disable SSLv2 by default in OpenSSL support.
2310 PP/01 Solaris build fix for Oracle's LDAP libraries.
2311 Bugzilla 1109, patch from Stephen Usher.
2313 TF/01 HP/UX build fix: avoid arithmetic on a void pointer.
2315 TK/01 DKIM Verification: Fix relaxed canon for empty headers w/o
2318 TF/02 Fix a couple more cases where we did not log the error message
2319 when unlink() failed. See also change 4.74-TF/03.
2321 TF/03 Make the exiwhat support code safe for signals. Previously Exim might
2322 lock up or crash if it happened to be inside a call to libc when it
2323 got a SIGUSR1 from exiwhat.
2325 The SIGUSR1 handler appends the current process status to the process
2326 log which is later printed by exiwhat. It used to use the general
2327 purpose logging code to do this, but several functions it calls are
2328 not safe for signals.
2330 The new output code in the SIGUSR1 handler is specific to the process
2331 log, and simple enough that it's easy to inspect for signal safety.
2332 Removing some special cases also simplifies the general logging code.
2333 Removing the spurious timestamps from the process log simplifies
2336 TF/04 Improved ratelimit ACL condition.
2338 The /noupdate option has been deprecated in favour of /readonly which
2339 has clearer semantics. The /leaky, /strict, and /readonly update modes
2340 are mutually exclusive. The update mode is no longer included in the
2341 database key; it just determines when the database is updated. (This
2342 means that when you upgrade Exim will forget old rate measurements.)
2344 Exim now checks that the per_* options are used with an update mode that
2345 makes sense for the current ACL. For example, when Exim is processing a
2346 message (e.g. acl_smtp_rcpt or acl_smtp_data, etc.) you can specify
2347 per_mail/leaky or per_mail/strict; otherwise (e.g. in acl_smtp_helo) you
2348 must specify per_mail/readonly. If you omit the update mode it defaults to
2349 /leaky where that makes sense (as before) or /readonly where required.
2351 The /noupdate option is now undocumented but still supported for
2352 backwards compatibility. It is equivalent to /readonly except that in
2353 ACLs where /readonly is required you may specify /leaky/noupdate or
2354 /strict/noupdate which are treated the same as /readonly.
2356 A useful new feature is the /count= option. This is a generalization
2357 of the per_byte option, so that you can measure the throughput of other
2358 aggregate values. For example, the per_byte option is now equivalent
2359 to per_mail/count=${if >{0}{$message_size} {0} {$message_size} }.
2361 The per_rcpt option has been generalized using the /count= mechanism
2362 (though it's more complicated than the per_byte equivalence). When it is
2363 used in acl_smtp_rcpt, the per_rcpt option adds recipients to the
2364 measured rate one at a time; if it is used later (e.g. in acl_smtp_data)
2365 or in a non-SMTP ACL it adds all the recipients in one go. (The latter
2366 /count=$recipients_count behaviour used to work only in non-SMTP ACLs.)
2367 Note that using per_rcpt with a non-readonly update mode in more than
2368 one ACL will cause the recipients to be double-counted. (The per_mail
2369 and per_byte options don't have this problem.)
2371 The handling of very low rates has changed slightly. If the computed rate
2372 is less than the event's count (usually one) then this event is the first
2373 after a long gap. In this case the rate is set to the same as this event's
2374 count, so that the first message of a spam run is counted properly.
2376 The major new feature is a mechanism for counting the rate of unique
2377 events. The new per_addr option counts the number of different
2378 recipients that someone has sent messages to in the last time period. It
2379 behaves like per_rcpt if all the recipient addresses are different, but
2380 duplicate recipient addresses do not increase the measured rate. Like
2381 the /count= option this is a general mechanism, so the per_addr option
2382 is equivalent to per_rcpt/unique=$local_part@$domain. You can, for
2383 example, measure the rate that a client uses different sender addresses
2384 with the options per_mail/unique=$sender_address. There are further
2385 details in the main documentation.
2387 TF/05 Removed obsolete $Cambridge$ CVS revision strings.
2389 TF/06 Removed a few PCRE remnants.
2391 TF/07 Automatically extract Exim's version number from tags in the git
2392 repository when doing development or release builds.
2394 PP/02 Raise smtp_cmd_buffer_size to 16kB.
2395 Bugzilla 879. Patch from Paul Fisher.
2397 PP/03 Implement SSL-on-connect outbound with protocol=smtps on smtp transport.
2398 Heavily based on revision 40f9a89a from Simon Arlott's tree.
2401 PP/04 Use .dylib instead of .so for dynamic library loading on MacOS.
2403 PP/05 Variable $av_failed, true if the AV scanner deferred.
2404 Bugzilla 1078. Patch from John Horne.
2406 PP/06 Stop make process more reliably on build failure.
2407 Bugzilla 1087. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2409 PP/07 Make maildir_use_size_file an _expandable_ boolean.
2410 Bugzilla 1089. Patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2412 PP/08 Handle ${run} returning more data than OS pipe buffer size.
2413 Bugzilla 1131. Patch from Holger Weiß.
2415 PP/09 Handle IPv6 addresses with SPF.
2416 Bugzilla 860. Patch from Wolfgang Breyha.
2418 PP/10 GnuTLS: support TLS 1.2 & 1.1.
2420 Use gnutls_certificate_verify_peers2() [patch from Andreas Metzler].
2423 PP/11 match_* no longer expand right-hand-side by default.
2424 New compile-time build option, EXPAND_LISTMATCH_RHS.
2425 New expansion conditions, "inlist", "inlisti".
2427 PP/12 fix uninitialised greeting string from PP/03 (smtps client support).
2429 PP/13 shell and compiler warnings fixes for RC1-RC4 changes.
2431 PP/14 fix log_write() format string regression from TF/03.
2432 Bugzilla 1152. Patch from Dmitry Isaikin.
2438 PP/01 The new ldap_require_cert option would segfault if used. Fixed.
2440 PP/02 Harmonised TLS library version reporting; only show if debugging.
2441 Layout now matches that introduced for other libraries in 4.74 PP/03.
2443 PP/03 New openssl_options items: no_sslv2 no_sslv3 no_ticket no_tlsv1
2445 PP/04 New "dns_use_edns0" global option.
2447 PP/05 Don't segfault on misconfiguration of ref:name exim-user as uid.
2450 PP/06 Extra paranoia around buffer usage at the STARTTLS transition.
2451 nb: Exim is not vulnerable to http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555316
2453 TK/01 Updated PolarSSL code to 0.14.2.
2454 Bugzilla 1097. Patch from Andreas Metzler.
2456 PP/07 Catch divide-by-zero in ${eval:...}.
2457 Fixes bugzilla 1102.
2459 PP/08 Condition negation of bool{}/bool_lax{} did not negate. Fixed.
2462 TK/02 Bugzilla 1106: CVE-2011-1764 - DKIM log line was subject to a
2463 format-string attack -- SECURITY: remote arbitrary code execution.
2465 TK/03 SECURITY - DKIM signature header parsing was double-expanded, second
2466 time unintentionally subject to list matching rules, letting the header
2467 cause arbitrary Exim lookups (of items which can occur in lists, *not*
2468 arbitrary string expansion). This allowed for information disclosure.
2470 PP/09 Fix another SIGFPE (x86) in ${eval:...} expansion, this time related to
2471 INT_MIN/-1 -- value coerced to INT_MAX.
2477 NM/01 Workaround for PCRE version dependency in version reporting
2480 TF/01 Update valgrind.h and memcheck.h to copies from valgrind-3.6.0.
2481 This fixes portability to compilers other than gcc, notably
2482 Solaris CC and HP-UX CC. Fixes Bugzilla 1050.
2484 TF/02 Bugzilla 139: Avoid using the += operator in the modular lookup
2485 makefiles for portability to HP-UX and POSIX correctness.
2487 PP/01 Permit LOOKUP_foo enabling on the make command-line.
2488 Also via indented variable definition in the Makefile.
2489 (Debugging by Oliver Heesakkers).
2491 PP/02 Restore caching of spamd results with expanded spamd_address.
2492 Patch from author of expandable spamd_address patch, Wolfgang Breyha.
2494 PP/03 Build issue: lookups-Makefile now exports LC_ALL=C
2495 Improves build reliability. Fix from: Frank Elsner
2497 NM/02 Fix wide character breakage in the rfc2047 coding
2498 Fixes bug 1064. Patch from Andrey N. Oktyabrski
2500 NM/03 Allow underscore in dnslist lookups
2501 Fixes bug 1026. Patch from Graeme Fowler
2503 PP/04 Bugzilla 230: Support TLS-enabled LDAP (in addition to ldaps).
2504 Code patches from Adam Ciarcinski of NetBSD.
2506 NM/04 Fixed exiqgrep to cope with mailq missing size issue
2509 PP/05 Bugzilla 1083: when lookup expansion defers, escape the output which
2510 is logged, to avoid truncation. Patch from John Horne.
2512 PP/06 Bugzilla 1042: implement freeze_signal on pipe transports.
2513 Patch from Jakob Hirsch.
2515 PP/07 Bugzilla 1061: restrict error messages sent over SMTP to not reveal
2516 SQL string expansion failure details.
2517 Patch from Andrey Oktyabrski.
2519 PP/08 Bugzilla 486: implement %M datestamping in log filenames.
2520 Patch from Simon Arlott.
2522 PP/09 New lookups functionality failed to compile on old gcc which rejects
2523 extern declarations in function scope.
2524 Patch from Oliver Fleischmann
2526 PP/10 Use sig_atomic_t for flags set from signal handlers.
2527 Check getgroups() return and improve debugging.
2528 Fixed developed for diagnosis in bug 927 (which turned out to be
2531 PP/11 Bugzilla 1055: Update $message_linecount for maildir_tag.
2532 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2534 PP/12 Bugzilla 1056: Improved spamd server selection.
2535 Patch from Mark Zealey.
2537 PP/13 Bugzilla 1086: Deal with maildir quota file races.
2538 Based on patch from Heiko Schlittermann.
2540 PP/14 Bugzilla 1019: DKIM multiple signature generation fix.
2541 Patch from Uwe Doering, sign-off by Michael Haardt.
2543 NM/05 Fix to spam.c to accommodate older gcc versions which dislike
2544 variable declaration deep within a block. Bug and patch from
2547 PP/15 lookups-Makefile IRIX compatibility coercion.
2549 PP/16 Make DISABLE_DKIM build knob functional.
2551 NM/06 Bugzilla 968: child_open_uid: restore default SIGPIPE handler
2552 Patch by Simon Arlott
2554 TF/03 Fix valgrind.h portability to C89 compilers that do not support
2555 variable argument macros. Our copy now differs from upstream.
2561 TF/01 Failure to get a lock on a hints database can have serious
2562 consequences so log it to the panic log.
2564 TF/02 Log LMTP confirmation messages in the same way as SMTP,
2565 controlled using the smtp_confirmation log selector.
2567 TF/03 Include the error message when we fail to unlink a spool file.
2569 DW/01 Bugzilla 139: Support dynamically loaded lookups as modules.
2570 With thanks to Steve Haslam, Johannes Berg & Serge Demonchaux
2571 for maintaining out-of-tree patches for some time.
2573 PP/01 Bugzilla 139: Documentation and portability issues.
2574 Avoid GNU Makefile-isms, let Exim continue to build on BSD.
2575 Handle per-OS dynamic-module compilation flags.
2577 PP/02 Let /dev/null have normal permissions.
2578 The 4.73 fixes were a little too stringent and complained about the
2579 permissions on /dev/null. Exempt it from some checks.
2580 Reported by Andreas M. Kirchwitz.
2582 PP/03 Report version information for many libraries, including
2583 Exim version information for dynamically loaded libraries. Created
2584 version.h, now support a version extension string for distributors
2585 who patch heavily. Dynamic module ABI change.
2587 PP/04 CVE-2011-0017 - check return value of setuid/setgid. This is a
2588 privilege escalation vulnerability whereby the Exim run-time user
2589 can cause root to append content of the attacker's choosing to
2592 PP/05 Bugzilla 1041: merged DCC maintainer's fixes for return code.
2595 PP/06 Bugzilla 1071: fix delivery logging with untrusted macros.
2596 If dropping privileges for untrusted macros, we disabled normal logging
2597 on the basis that it would fail; for the Exim run-time user, this is not
2598 the case, and it resulted in successful deliveries going unlogged.
2599 Fixed. Reported by Andreas Metzler.
2605 PP/01 Date: & Message-Id: revert to normally being appended to a message,
2606 only prepend for the Resent-* case. Fixes regression introduced in
2607 Exim 4.70 by NM/22 for Bugzilla 607.
2609 PP/02 Include check_rfc2047_length in configure.default because we're seeing
2610 increasing numbers of administrators be bitten by this.
2612 JJ/01 Added DISABLE_DKIM and comment to src/EDITME
2614 PP/03 Bugzilla 994: added openssl_options main configuration option.
2616 PP/04 Bugzilla 995: provide better SSL diagnostics on failed reads.
2618 PP/05 Bugzilla 834: provide a permit_coredump option for pipe transports.
2620 PP/06 Adjust NTLM authentication to handle SASL Initial Response.
2622 PP/07 If TLS negotiated an anonymous cipher, we could end up with SSL but
2623 without a peer certificate, leading to a segfault because of an
2624 assumption that peers always have certificates. Be a little more
2625 paranoid. Problem reported by Martin Tscholak.
2627 PP/08 Bugzilla 926: switch ClamAV to use the new zINSTREAM API for content
2628 filtering; old API available if built with WITH_OLD_CLAMAV_STREAM=yes
2629 NB: ClamAV planning to remove STREAM in "middle of 2010".
2630 CL also introduces -bmalware, various -d+acl logging additions and
2631 more caution in buffer sizes.
2633 PP/09 Implemented reverse_ip expansion operator.
2635 PP/10 Bugzilla 937: provide a "debug" ACL control.
2637 PP/11 Bugzilla 922: Documentation dusting, patch provided by John Horne.
2639 PP/12 Bugzilla 973: Implement --version.
2641 PP/13 Bugzilla 752: Refuse to build/run if Exim user is root/0.
2643 PP/14 Build without WITH_CONTENT_SCAN. Path from Andreas Metzler.
2645 PP/15 Bugzilla 816: support multiple condition rules on Routers.
2647 PP/16 Add bool_lax{} expansion operator and use that for combining multiple
2648 condition rules, instead of bool{}. Make both bool{} and bool_lax{}
2649 ignore trailing whitespace.
2651 JJ/02 prevent non-panic DKIM error from being sent to paniclog
2653 JJ/03 added tcp_wrappers_daemon_name to allow host entries other than
2656 PP/17 Fix malware regression for cmdline scanner introduced in PP/08.
2657 Notification from Dr Andrew Aitchison.
2659 PP/18 Change ClamAV response parsing to be more robust and to handle ClamAV's
2660 ExtendedDetectionInfo response format.
2661 Notification from John Horne.
2663 PP/19 OpenSSL 1.0.0a compatibility const-ness change, should be backwards
2666 PP/20 Added a CONTRIBUTING file. Fixed the documentation build to use http:
2667 XSL and documented dependency on system catalogs, with examples of how
2670 DW/21 Added Valgrind hooks in store.c to help it capture out-of-bounds store
2673 DW/22 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - partial fix: restrict default behaviour
2674 of CONFIGURE_OWNER and CONFIGURE_GROUP options to no longer allow a
2675 configuration file which is writeable by the Exim user or group.
2677 DW/23 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part two: extend checks for writeability
2678 of configuration files to cover files specified with the -C option if
2679 they are going to be used with root privileges, not just the default
2682 DW/24 Bugzilla 1044: CVE-2010-4345 - part three: remove ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY
2683 option (effectively making it always true).
2685 DW/25 Add TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE option to allow alternative configuration
2686 files to be used while preserving root privileges.
2688 DW/26 Set FD_CLOEXEC on SMTP sockets after forking in the daemon, to ensure
2689 that rogue child processes cannot use them.
2691 PP/27 Bugzilla 1047: change the default for system_filter_user to be the Exim
2692 run-time user, instead of root.
2694 PP/28 Add WHITELIST_D_MACROS option to let some macros be overridden by the
2695 Exim run-time user without dropping privileges.
2697 DW/29 Remove use of va_copy() which breaks pre-C99 systems. Duplicate the
2698 result string, instead of calling string_vformat() twice with the same
2701 DW/30 Allow TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE only for Exim or CONFIGURE_OWNER, not
2702 for other users. Others should always drop root privileges if they use
2703 -C on the command line, even for a whitelisted configure file.
2705 DW/31 Turn TRUSTED_CONFIG_PREFIX_FILE into TRUSTED_CONFIG_FILE. No prefixes.
2707 NM/01 Fixed bug #1002 - Message loss when using multiple deliveries
2713 JJ/01 installed exipick 20100104.1, adding $max_received_linelength,
2714 $data_path, and $header_path variables; fixed documentation bugs and
2717 JJ/02 installed exipick 20100222.0, added --input-dir and --finput to allow
2718 exipick to access non-standard spools, including the "frozen" queue
2721 NM/01 Bugzilla 965: Support mysql stored procedures.
2722 Patch from Alain Williams
2724 NM/02 Bugzilla 961: Spacing fix (syntax error) on Makefile directives for NetBSD
2726 NM/03 Bugzilla 955: Documentation fix for max_rcpts.
2727 Patch from Andreas Metzler
2729 NM/04 Bugzilla 954: Fix for unknown responses from Dovecot authenticator.
2730 Patch from Kirill Miazine
2732 NM/05 Bugzilla 671: Added umask to procmail example.
2734 JJ/03 installed exipick 20100323.0, fixing doc bug
2736 NM/06 Bugzilla 988: CVE-2010-2023 - prevent hardlink attack on sticky mail
2737 directory. Notification and patch from Dan Rosenberg.
2739 TK/01 PDKIM: Upgrade PolarSSL files to upstream version 0.12.1.
2741 TK/02 Improve log output when DKIM signing operation fails.
2743 MH/01 Treat the transport option dkim_domain as a colon separated
2744 list, not as a single string, and sign the message with each element,
2745 omitting multiple occurences of the same signer.
2747 NM/07 Null terminate DKIM strings, Null initialise DKIM variable
2748 Bugzilla 985, 986. Patch by Simon Arlott
2750 NM/08 Bugzilla 967. dnsdb DNS TXT record bug fix (DKIM-related)
2751 Patch by Simon Arlott
2753 PP/01 Bugzilla 989: CVE-2010-2024 - work round race condition on
2754 MBX locking. Notification from Dan Rosenberg.
2760 TK/01 Bugzilla 912: Fix DKIM segfault on empty headers/body.
2762 NM/01 Bugzilla 913: Documentation fix for gnutls_* options.
2764 NM/02 Bugzilla 722: Documentation for randint. Better randomness defaults.
2766 NM/03 Bugzilla 847: Enable DNSDB lookup by default.
2768 NM/04 Bugzilla 915: Flag broken perl installation during build.
2774 TK/01 Added patch by Johannes Berg that expands the main option
2775 "spamd_address" if it starts with a dollar sign.
2777 TK/02 Write list of recipients to X-Envelope-Sender header when building
2778 the mbox-format spool file for content scanning (suggested by Jakob
2781 TK/03 Added patch by Wolfgang Breyha that adds experimental DCC
2782 (http://www.dcc-servers.net/) support via dccifd. Activated by
2783 setting EXPERIMENTAL_DCC=yes in Local/Makefile.
2785 TK/04 Bugzilla 673: Add f-protd malware scanner support. Patch submitted
2786 by Mark Daniel Reidel <mr@df.eu>.
2788 NM/01 Bugzilla 657: Embedded PCRE removed from the exim source tree.
2789 When building exim an external PCRE library is now needed -
2790 PCRE is a system library on the majority of modern systems.
2791 See entry on PCRE_LIBS in EDITME file.
2793 NM/02 Bugzilla 646: Removed unwanted C/R in Dovecot authenticator
2794 conversation. Added nologin parameter to request.
2795 Patch contributed by Kirill Miazine.
2797 TF/01 Do not log submission mode rewrites if they do not change the address.
2799 TF/02 Bugzilla 662: Fix stack corruption before exec() in daemon.c.
2801 NM/03 Bugzilla 602: exicyclog now handles panic log, and creates empty
2802 log files in place. Contributed by Roberto Lima.
2804 NM/04 Bugzilla 667: Close socket used by dovecot authenticator.
2806 TF/03 Bugzilla 615: When checking the local_parts router precondition
2807 after a local_part_suffix or local_part_prefix option, Exim now
2808 does not use the address's named list lookup cache, since this
2809 contains cached lookups for the whole local part.
2811 NM/05 Bugzilla 521: Integrated SPF Best Guess support contributed by
2812 Robert Millan. Documentation is in experimental-spec.txt.
2814 TF/04 Bugzilla 668: Fix parallel build (make -j).
2816 NM/05.2 Bugzilla 437: Prevent Maildir aux files being created with mode 000.
2818 NM/05.3 Bugzilla 598: Improvement to Dovecot authenticator handling.
2819 Patch provided by Jan Srzednicki.
2821 TF/05 Leading white space used to be stripped from $spam_report which
2822 wrecked the formatting. Now it is preserved.
2824 TF/06 Save $spam_score, $spam_bar, and $spam_report in spool files, so
2825 that they are available at delivery time.
2827 TF/07 Fix the way ${extract is skipped in the untaken branch of a conditional.
2829 TF/08 TLS error reporting now respects the incoming_interface and
2830 incoming_port log selectors.
2832 TF/09 Produce a more useful error message if an SMTP transport's hosts
2833 setting expands to an empty string.
2835 NM/06 Bugzilla 744: EXPN did not work under TLS.
2836 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2838 NM/07 Bugzilla 769: Extraneous comma in usage fprintf
2839 Patch provided by Richard Godbee.
2841 NM/08 Fixed erroneous documentation references to smtp_notquit_acl to be
2842 acl_smtp_notquit, added index entry.
2844 NM/09 Bugzilla 787: Potential buffer overflow in string_format.
2845 Patch provided by Eugene Bujak.
2847 NM/10 Bugzilla 770: Problem on some platforms modifying the len parameter to
2848 accept(). Patch provided by Maxim Dounin.
2850 NM/11 Bugzilla 749: Preserve old behaviour of blanks comparing equal to zero.
2851 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2853 NM/12 Bugzilla 497: Correct behaviour of exiwhat when no config exists.
2855 NM/13 Bugzilla 590: Correct handling of Resent-Date headers.
2856 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2858 NM/14 Bugzilla 622: Added timeout setting to transport filter.
2859 Patch provided by Dean Brooks.
2861 TK/05 Add native DKIM support (does not depend on external libraries).
2863 NM/15 Bugzilla 854: Removed code that symlinks to pcre as its no longer useful.
2864 Patch provided by Graeme Fowler.
2866 NM/16 Bugzilla 851: Documentation example syntax fix.
2868 NM/17 Changed NOTICE file to remove references to embedded PCRE.
2870 NM/18 Bugzilla 894: Fix issue with very long lines including comments in
2873 NM/19 Bugzilla 745: TLS version reporting.
2874 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2876 NM/20 Bugzilla 167: bool: condition support.
2877 Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2879 NM/21 Bugzilla 665: gnutls_compat_mode to allow compatibility with broken
2880 clients. Patch provided by Phil Pennock.
2882 NM/22 Bugzilla 607: prepend (not append) Resent-Message-ID and Resent-Date.
2883 Patch provided by Brad "anomie" Jorsch.
2885 NM/23 Bugzilla 687: Fix misparses in eximstats.
2886 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2888 NM/24 Bugzilla 688: Fix exiwhat to handle log_selector = +pid.
2889 Patch provided by Heiko Schlittermann.
2891 NM/25 Bugzilla 727: Use transport mode as default mode for maildirsize file.
2892 plus update to original patch.
2894 NM/26 Bugzilla 799: Documentation correction for ratelimit.
2896 NM/27 Bugzilla 802: Improvements to local interface IP addr detection.
2897 Patch provided by David Brownlee.
2899 NM/28 Bugzilla 807: Improvements to LMTP delivery logging.
2901 NM/29 Bugzilla 862, 866, 875: Documentation bugfixes.
2903 NM/30 Bugzilla 888: TLS documentation bugfixes.
2905 NM/31 Bugzilla 896: Dovecot buffer overrun fix.
2907 NM/32 Bugzilla 889: Change all instances of "expr" in shell scripts to "expr --"
2908 Unlike the original bugzilla I have changed all shell scripts in src tree.
2910 NM/33 Bugzilla 898: Transport filter timeout fix.
2911 Patch by Todd Rinaldo.
2913 NM/34 Bugzilla 901: Fix sign/unsigned and UTF mismatches.
2914 Patch by Serge Demonchaux.
2916 NM/35 Bugzilla 39: Base64 decode bug fixes.
2917 Patch by Jakob Hirsch.
2919 NM/36 Bugzilla 909: Correct connect() call in dcc code.
2921 NM/37 Bugzilla 910: Correct issue with relaxed/simple handling.
2923 NM/38 Bugzilla 908: Removed NetBSD3 support as no longer needed.
2925 NM/39 Bugzilla 911: Fixed MakeLinks build script.
2931 TK/01 Add preliminary DKIM support. Currently requires a forked version of
2932 ALT-N's libdkim that I have put here:
2933 http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/
2935 Note to Michael Haardt: I had to rename some vars in sieve.c. They
2936 were called 'true' and it seems that C99 defines that as a reserved
2937 keyword to be used with 'bool' variable types. That means you could
2938 not include C99-style headers which use bools without triggering
2939 build errors in sieve.c.
2941 NM/01 Bugzilla 592: --help option is handled incorrectly if exim is invoked
2942 as mailq or other aliases. Changed the --help handling significantly
2943 to do whats expected. exim_usage() emits usage/help information.
2945 SC/01 Added the -bylocaldomain option to eximstats.
2947 NM/02 Bugzilla 619: Defended against bad data coming back from gethostbyaddr.
2949 NM/03 Bugzilla 613: Documentation fix for acl_not_smtp.
2951 NM/04 Bugzilla 628: PCRE update to 7.4 (work done by John Hall).
2957 PH/01 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
2959 PH/02 When an IPv6 address is converted to a string for single-key lookup
2960 in an address list (e.g. for an item such as "net24-dbm;/net/works"),
2961 dots are used instead of colons so that keys in lsearch files need not
2962 contain colons. This was done some time before quoting was made available
2963 in lsearch files. However, iplsearch files do require colons in IPv6 keys
2964 (notated using the quote facility) so as to distinguish them from IPv4
2965 keys. This meant that lookups for IP addresses in host lists did not work
2966 for iplsearch lookups.
2968 This has been fixed by arranging for IPv6 addresses to be expressed with
2969 colons if the lookup type is iplsearch. This is not incompatible, because
2970 previously such lookups could never work.
2972 The situation is now rather anomalous, since one *can* have colons in
2973 ordinary lsearch keys. However, making the change in all cases is
2974 incompatible and would probably break a number of configurations.
2976 TK/01 Change PRVS address formatting scheme to reflect latests BATV draft
2979 MH/01 The "spam" ACL condition code contained a sscanf() call with a %s
2980 conversion specification without a maximum field width, thereby enabling
2981 a rogue spamd server to cause a buffer overflow. While nobody in their
2982 right mind would setup Exim to query an untrusted spamd server, an
2983 attacker that gains access to a server running spamd could potentially
2984 exploit this vulnerability to run arbitrary code as the Exim user.
2986 TK/02 Bugzilla 502: Apply patch to make the SPF-Received: header use
2987 $primary_hostname instead of what libspf2 thinks the hosts name is.
2989 MH/02 The dsearch lookup now uses lstat(2) instead of stat(2) to look for
2990 a directory entry by the name of the lookup key. Previously, if a
2991 symlink pointed to a non-existing file or a file in a directory that
2992 Exim lacked permissions to read, a lookup for a key matching that
2993 symlink would fail. Now it is enough that a matching directory entry
2994 exists, symlink or not. (Bugzilla 503.)
2996 PH/03 The body_linecount and body_zerocount variables are now exported in the
2999 PH/04 Added the $dnslist_matched variable.
3001 PH/05 Unset $tls_cipher and $tls_peerdn before making a connection as a client.
3002 This means they are set thereafter only if the connection becomes
3005 PH/06 Added the client_condition to authenticators so that some can be skipped
3006 by clients under certain conditions.
3008 PH/07 The error message for a badly-placed control=no_multiline_responses left
3009 "_responses" off the end of the name.
3011 PH/08 Added -Mvc to output a copy of a message in RFC 2822 format.
3013 PH/09 Tidied the code for creating ratelimiting keys, creating them explicitly
3014 (without spaces) instead of just copying the configuration text.
3016 PH/10 Added the /noupdate option to the ratelimit ACL condition.
3018 PH/11 Added $max_received_linelength.
3020 PH/12 Added +ignore_defer and +include_defer to host lists.
3022 PH/13 Installed PCRE version 7.2. This needed some changes because of the new
3023 way in which PCRE > 7.0 is built.
3025 PH/14 Implemented queue_only_load_latch.
3027 PH/15 Removed an incorrect (int) cast when reading the value of SIZE in a
3028 MAIL command. The effect was to mangle the value on 64-bit systems.
3030 PH/16 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3032 PH/17 Added the NOTQUIT ACL, based on a patch from Ted Cooper.
3034 PH/18 If a system quota error occurred while trying to create the file for
3035 a maildir delivery, the message "Mailbox is full" was not appended to the
3036 bounce if the delivery eventually timed out. Change 4.67/27 below applied
3037 only to a quota excession during the actual writing of the file.
3039 PH/19 It seems that peer DN values may contain newlines (and other non-printing
3040 characters?) which causes problems in log lines. The DN values are now
3041 passed through string_printing() before being added to log lines.
3043 PH/20 Added the "servers=" facility to MySQL and PostgreSQL lookups. (Oracle
3044 and InterBase are left for another time.)
3046 PH/21 Added message_body_newlines option.
3048 PH/22 Guard against possible overflow in moan_check_errorcopy().
3050 PH/23 POSIX allows open() to be a macro; guard against that.
3052 PH/24 If the recipient of an error message contained an @ in the local part
3053 (suitably quoted, of course), incorrect values were put in $domain and
3054 $local_part during the evaluation of errors_copy.
3060 MH/01 Fix for bug #448, segfault in Dovecot authenticator when interface_address
3061 is unset (happens when testing with -bh and -oMi isn't used). Thanks to
3064 PH/01 Added a new log selector smtp_no_mail, to log SMTP sessions that do not
3065 issue a MAIL command.
3067 PH/02 In an ACL statement such as
3069 deny dnslists = X!=127.0.0.2 : X=127.0.0.2
3071 if a client was not listed at all, or was listed with a value other than
3072 127.0.0.2, in the X list, but was listed with 127.0.0.2 in the Y list,
3073 the condition was not true (as it should be), so access was not denied.
3074 The bug was that the ! inversion was incorrectly passed on to the second
3075 item. This has been fixed.
3077 PH/03 Added additional dnslists conditions == and =& which are different from
3078 = and & when the dns lookup returns more than one IP address.
3080 PH/04 Added gnutls_require_{kx,mac,protocols} to give more control over the
3081 cipher suites used by GnuTLS. These options are ignored by OpenSSL.
3083 PH/05 After discussion on the list, added a compile time option ENABLE_DISABLE_
3084 FSYNC, which compiles an option called disable_fsync that allows for
3085 bypassing fsync(). The documentation is heavily laced with warnings.
3087 SC/01 Updated eximstats to collate all SpamAssassin rejects into one bucket.
3089 PH/06 Some tidies to the infrastructure of the Test Suite that is concerned
3090 with the auxiliary C programs that it uses: (1) Arrange for BIND_8_COMPAT
3091 to be defined when compiling on OSX (Darwin); (2) Tidies to the Makefile,
3092 including adding "make clean"; (3) Added -fPIC when compiling the test
3093 dynamically loaded module, to get rid of a warning.
3095 MH/02 Fix for bug #451, causing paniclog entries to be written if a bounce
3096 message fails, move_frozen_messages = true and ignore_bounce_errors_after
3097 = 0s. The bug is otherwise harmless.
3099 PH/07 There was a bug in the dovecot authenticator such that the value of
3100 $auth1 could be overwritten, and so not correctly preserved, after a
3101 successful authentication. This usually meant that the value preserved by
3102 the server_setid option was incorrect.
3104 PH/08 Added $smtp_count_at_connection_start, deliberately with a long name.
3106 PH/09 Installed PCRE release 7.0.
3108 PH/10 The acl_not_smtp_start ACL was, contrary to the documentation, not being
3109 run for batched SMTP input. It is now run at the start of every message
3110 in the batch. While fixing this I discovered that the process information
3111 (output by running exiwhat) was not always getting set for -bs and -bS
3112 input. This is fixed, and it now also says "batched" for BSMTP.
3114 PH/11 Added control=no_pipelining.
3116 PH/12 Added $sending_ip_address and $sending_port (mostly Magnus Holmgren's
3117 patch, slightly modified), and move the expansion of helo_data till after
3118 the connection is made in the smtp transport (so it can use these
3121 PH/13 Added ${rfc2047d: to decoded RFC 2047 strings.
3123 PH/14 Added log_selector = +pid.
3125 PH/15 Flush SMTP output before delaying, unless control=no_delay_flush is set.
3127 PH/16 Add ${if forany and ${if forall.
3129 PH/17 Added dsn_from option to vary the From: line in DSNs.
3131 PH/18 Flush SMTP output before performing a callout, unless control =
3132 no_callout_flush is set.
3134 PH/19 Change 4.64/PH/36 introduced a bug: when address_retry_include_sender
3135 was true (the default) a successful delivery failed to delete the retry
3136 item, thus causing premature timeout of the address. The bug is now
3139 PH/20 Added hosts_avoid_pipelining to the smtp transport.
3141 PH/21 Long custom messages for fakedefer and fakereject are now split up
3142 into multiline responses in the same way that messages for "deny" and
3143 other ACL rejections are.
3145 PH/22 Applied Jori Hamalainen's speed-up changes and typo fixes to exigrep,
3146 with slight modification.
3148 PH/23 Applied sieve patches from the maintainer "tracking the latest notify
3149 draft, changing the syntax and factoring some duplicate code".
3151 PH/24 When the log selector "outgoing_port" was set, the port was shown as -1
3152 for deliveries of the second and subsequent messages over the same SMTP
3155 PH/25 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch for ${addresses, ${map, ${filter, and
3156 ${reduce, with only minor "tidies".
3158 SC/02 Applied Daniel Tiefnig's patch to improve the '($parent) =' pattern match.
3160 PH/26 Added a "continue" ACL modifier that does nothing, for the benefit of its
3161 expansion side effects.
3163 PH/27 When a message times out after an over-quota error from an Exim-imposed
3164 quota, the bounce message says "mailbox is full". This message was not
3165 being given when it was a system quota that was exceeded. It now should
3168 MH/03 Made $recipients available in local_scan(). local_scan() already has
3169 better access to the recipient list through recipients_list[], but
3170 $recipients can be useful in postmaster-provided expansion strings.
3172 PH/28 The $smtp_command and $smtp_command_argument variables were not correct
3173 in the case of a MAIL command with additional options following the
3174 address, for example: MAIL FROM:<foo@bar> SIZE=1234. The option settings
3175 were accidentally chopped off.
3177 PH/29 SMTP synchronization checks are implemented when a command is read -
3178 there is a check that no more input is waiting when there shouldn't be
3179 any. However, for some commands, a delay in an ACL can mean that it is
3180 some time before the response is written. In this time, more input might
3181 arrive, invalidly. So now there are extra checks after an ACL has run for
3182 HELO/EHLO and after the predata ACL, and likewise for MAIL and RCPT when
3183 pipelining has not been advertised.
3185 PH/30 MH's patch to allow iscntrl() characters to be list separators.
3187 PH/31 Unlike :fail:, a custom message specified with :defer: was not being
3188 returned in the SMTP response when smtp_return_error_details was false.
3189 This has been fixed.
3191 PH/32 Change the Dovecot authenticator to use read() and write() on the socket
3192 instead of the C I/O that was originally supplied, because problems were
3193 reported on Solaris.
3195 PH/33 Compile failed with OpenSSL 0.9.8e. This was due to a coding error in
3196 Exim which did not show up earlier: it was assuming that a call to
3197 SSL_CTX_set_info_callback() might give an error value. In fact, there is
3198 no error. In previous releases of OpenSSL, SSL_CTX_set_info_callback()
3199 was a macro that became an assignment, so it seemed to work. This has
3200 changed to a proper function call with a void return, hence the compile
3201 error. Exim's code has been fixed.
3203 PH/34 Change HDA_SIZE in oracle.c from 256 to 512. This is needed for 64-bit
3206 PH/35 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which fixes a bug in "notify".
3208 PH/36 Applied John Jetmore's patch to add -v functionality to exigrep.
3210 PH/37 If a message is not accepted after it has had an id assigned (e.g.
3211 because it turns out to be too big or there is a timeout) there is no
3212 "Completed" line in the log. When some messages of this type were
3213 selected by exigrep, they were listed as "not completed". Others were
3214 picked up by some special patterns. I have improved the selection
3215 criteria to be more general.
3217 PH/38 The host_find_failed option in the manualroute router can now be set
3218 to "ignore", to completely ignore a host whose IP address cannot be
3219 found. If all hosts are ignored, the behaviour is controlled by the new
3220 host_all_ignored option.
3222 PH/39 In a list of hosts for manualroute, if one item (either because of multi-
3223 homing or because of multiple MX records with /mx) generated more than
3224 one IP address, and the following item turned out to be the local host,
3225 all the secondary addresses of the first item were incorrectly removed
3226 from the list, along with the local host and any following hosts (which
3227 is what is supposed to happen).
3229 PH/40 When Exim receives a message, it writes the login name, uid, and gid of
3230 whoever called Exim into the -H file. In the case of the daemon it was
3231 behaving confusingly. When first started, it used values for whoever
3232 started the daemon, but after a SIGHUP it used the Exim user (because it
3233 calls itself on a restart). I have changed the code so that it now always
3236 PH/41 (Following a suggestion from Tony Finch) If all the RCPT commands in a
3237 message are rejected with the same error (e.g. no authentication or bad
3238 sender address), and a DATA command is nevertheless sent (as can happen
3239 with PIPELINING or a stupid MUA), the error message that was given to the
3240 RCPT commands is included in the rejection of the DATA command. This is
3241 intended to be helpful for MUAs that show only the final error to their
3244 PH/42 Another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3246 SC/02 Eximstats - Differentiate between permanent and temporary rejects.
3247 Eximstats - Fixed some broken HTML links and added missing column headers
3249 Eximstats - Fixed Grand Total Summary Domains, Edomains, and Email
3250 columns for Rejects, Temp Rejects, Ham, and Spam rows.
3252 SC/03 Eximstats - V1.58 Fix to get <> and blackhole to show in edomain tables.
3254 PH/43 Yet another patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3256 PH/44 I found a way to check for a TCP/IP connection going away before sending
3257 the response to the final '.' that terminates a message, but only in the
3258 case where the client has not sent further data following the '.'
3259 (unfortunately, this is allowed). However, in many cases there won't be
3260 any further data because there won't be any more messages to send. A call
3261 to select() can be used: if it shows that the input is "ready", there is
3262 either input waiting, or the socket has been closed. An attempt to read
3263 the next input character can distinguish the two cases. Previously, Exim
3264 would have sent an OK response which the client would never have see.
3265 This could lead to message repetition. This fix should cure that, at
3266 least in a lot of common cases.
3268 PH/45 Do not advertise STARTTLS in response to HELP unless it would be
3269 advertised in response to EHLO.
3275 PH/01 Two more bugs that were introduced by 4.64/PH/07, in addition to the one
3276 fixed by 4.65/MH/01 (is this a record?) are fixed:
3278 (i) An empty string was always treated as zero by the numeric comparison
3279 operators. This behaviour has been restored.
3281 (ii) It is documented that the numeric comparison operators always treat
3282 their arguments as decimal numbers. This was broken in that numbers
3283 starting with 0 were being interpreted as octal.
3285 While fixing these problems I realized that there was another issue that
3286 hadn't been noticed. Values of message_size_limit (both the global option
3287 and the transport option) were treated as octal if they started with 0.
3288 The documentation was vague. These values are now always treated as
3289 decimal, and I will make that clear in the documentation.
3295 TK/01 Disable default definition of HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE. Clashes with
3296 Linux large file support (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) on older glibc
3299 MH/01 Don't check that the operands of numeric comparison operators are
3300 integers when their expansion is in "skipping" mode (fixes bug
3301 introduced by 4.64-PH/07).
3303 PH/01 If a system filter or a router generates more than SHRT_MAX (32767)
3304 child addresses, Exim now panics and dies. Previously, because the count
3305 is held in a short int, deliveries were likely to be lost. As such a
3306 large number of recipients for a single message is ridiculous
3307 (performance will be very, very poor), I have chosen to impose a limit
3308 rather than extend the field.
3314 TK/01 Bugzilla #401. Fix DK spooling code so that it can overwrite a
3315 leftover -K file (the existence of which was triggered by #402).
3316 While we were at it, introduced process PID as part of the -K
3317 filename. This should rule out race conditions when creating
3320 TK/02 Bugzilla #402. Apply patch from Simon Arlott, speeding up DK signing
3321 processing considerably. Previous code took too long for large mails,
3322 triggering a timeout which in turn triggers #401.
3324 TK/03 Introduced HAVE_LINUX_SENDFILE to os.h-Linux. Currently only used
3325 in the DK code in transports.c. sendfile() is not really portable,
3326 hence the _LINUX specificness.
3328 TF/01 In the add_headers option to the mail command in an Exim filter,
3329 there was a bug that Exim would claim a syntax error in any
3330 header after the first one which had an odd number of characters
3333 PH/01 If a server that rejects MAIL FROM:<> was the target of a sender
3334 callout verification, Exim cached a "reject" for the entire domain. This
3335 is correct for most verifications, but it is not correct for a recipient
3336 verification with use_sender or use_postmaster set, because in that case
3337 the callout does not use MAIL FROM:<>. Exim now distinguishes the special
3338 case of MAIL FROM:<> rejection from other early rejections (e.g.
3339 rejection of HELO). When verifying a recipient using a non-null MAIL
3340 address, the cache is ignored if it shows MAIL FROM:<> rejection.
3341 Whatever the result of the callout, the value of the domain cache is
3342 left unchanged (for any other kind of callout, getting as far as trying
3343 RCPT means that the domain itself is ok).
3345 PH/02 Tidied a number of unused variable and signed/unsigned warnings that
3348 PH/03 On Solaris, an unexpectedly close socket (dropped connection) can
3349 manifest itself as EPIPE rather than ECONNECT. When tidying away a
3350 session, the daemon ignores ECONNECT errors and logs others; it now
3351 ignores EPIPE as well.
3353 PH/04 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up mime.c
3354 (quoted-printable decoding).
3356 PH/05 Applied Nico Erfurth's refactoring patch to tidy up spool_mbox.c, and
3357 later the small subsequent patch to fix an introduced bug.
3359 PH/06 Installed the latest Cygwin Makefile from the Cygwin maintainer.
3361 PH/07 There was no check for overflow in expansions such as ${if >{1}{4096M}}.
3363 PH/08 An error is now given if message_size_limit is specified negative.
3365 PH/09 Applied and tidied up Jakob Hirsch's patch for allowing ACL variables
3366 to be given (somewhat) arbitrary names.
3368 JJ/01 exipick 20060919.0, allow for arbitrary acl_ variables introduced
3371 JJ/02 exipick 20060919.0, --show-vars args can now be regular expressions,
3372 miscellaneous code fixes
3374 PH/10 Added the log_reject_target ACL modifier to specify where to log
3377 PH/11 Callouts were setting the name used for EHLO/HELO from $smtp_active_
3378 hostname. This is wrong, because it relates to the incoming message (and
3379 probably the interface on which it is arriving) and not to the outgoing
3380 callout (which could be using a different interface). This has been
3381 changed to use the value of the helo_data option from the smtp transport
3382 instead - this is what is used when a message is actually being sent. If
3383 there is no remote transport (possible with a router that sets up host
3384 addresses), $smtp_active_hostname is used.
3386 PH/12 Installed Andrey Panin's patch to add a dovecot authenticator. Various
3387 tweaks were necessary in order to get it to work (see also 21 below):
3388 (a) The code assumed that strncpy() returns a negative number on buffer
3389 overflow, which isn't the case. Replaced with Exim's string_format()
3391 (b) There were several signed/unsigned issues. I just did the minimum
3392 hacking in of casts. There is scope for a larger refactoring.
3393 (c) The code used strcasecmp() which is not a standard C function.
3394 Replaced with Exim's strcmpic() function.
3395 (d) The code set only $1; it now sets $auth1 as well.
3396 (e) A simple test gave the error "authentication client didn't specify
3397 service in request". It would seem that Dovecot has changed its
3398 interface. Fortunately there's a specification; I followed it and
3399 changed what the client sends and it appears to be working now.
3401 PH/13 Added $message_headers_raw to provide the headers without RFC 2047
3404 PH/14 Corrected misleading output from -bv when -v was also used. Suppose the
3405 address A is aliased to B and C, where B exists and C does not. Without
3406 -v the output is "A verified" because verification stops after a
3407 successful redirection if more than one address is generated. However,
3408 with -v the child addresses are also verified. Exim was outputting "A
3409 failed to verify" and then showing the successful verification for C,
3410 with its parentage. It now outputs "B failed to verify", showing B's
3411 parentage before showing the successful verification of C.
3413 PH/15 Applied Michael Deutschmann's patch to allow DNS black list processing to
3414 look up a TXT record in a specific list after matching in a combined
3417 PH/16 It seems that the options setting for the resolver (RES_DEFNAMES and
3418 RES_DNSRCH) can affect the behaviour of gethostbyname() and friends when
3419 they consult the DNS. I had assumed they would set it the way they
3420 wanted; and indeed my experiments on Linux seem to show that in some
3421 cases they do (I could influence IPv6 lookups but not IPv4 lookups).
3422 To be on the safe side, however, I have now made the interface to
3423 host_find_byname() similar to host_find_bydns(), with an argument
3424 containing the DNS resolver options. The host_find_byname() function now
3425 sets these options at its start, just as host_find_bydns() does. The smtp
3426 transport options dns_qualify_single and dns_search_parents are passed to
3427 host_find_byname() when gethostbyname=TRUE in this transport. Other uses
3428 of host_find_byname() use the default settings of RES_DEFNAMES
3429 (qualify_single) but not RES_DNSRCH (search_parents).
3431 PH/17 Applied (a modified version of) Nico Erfurth's patch to make
3432 spool_read_header() do less string testing, by means of a preliminary
3433 switch on the second character of optional "-foo" lines. (This is
3434 overdue, caused by the large number of possibilities that now exist.
3435 Originally there were few.) While I was there, I also converted the
3436 str(n)cmp tests so they don't re-test the leading "-" and the first
3437 character, in the hope this might squeeze out yet more improvement.
3439 PH/18 Two problems with "group" syntax in header lines when verifying: (1) The
3440 flag allowing group syntax was set by the header_syntax check but not
3441 turned off, possible causing trouble later; (2) The flag was not being
3442 set at all for the header_verify test, causing "group"-style headers to
3443 be rejected. I have now set it in this case, and also caused header_
3444 verify to ignore an empty address taken from a group. While doing this, I
3445 came across some other cases where the code for allowing group syntax
3446 while scanning a header line wasn't quite right (mostly, not resetting
3447 the flag correctly in the right place). These bugs could have caused
3448 trouble for malformed header lines. I hope it is now all correct.
3450 PH/19 The functions {pwcheck,saslauthd}_verify_password() are always called
3451 with the "reply" argument non-NULL. The code, however (which originally
3452 came from elsewhere) had *some* tests for NULL when it wrote to *reply,
3453 but it didn't always do it. This confused somebody who was copying the
3454 code for some other use. I have removed all the tests.
3456 PH/20 It was discovered that the GnuTLS code had support for RSA_EXPORT, a
3457 feature that was used to support insecure browsers during the U.S. crypto
3458 embargo. It requires special client support, and Exim is probably the
3459 only MTA that supported it -- and would never use it because real RSA is
3460 always available. This code has been removed, because it had the bad
3461 effect of slowing Exim down by computing (never used) parameters for the
3462 RSA_EXPORT functionality.
3464 PH/21 On the advice of Timo Sirainen, added a check to the dovecot
3465 authenticator to fail if there's a tab character in the incoming data
3466 (there should never be unless someone is messing about, as it's supposed
3467 to be base64-encoded). Also added, on Timo's advice, the "secured" option
3468 if the connection is using TLS or if the remote IP is the same as the
3469 local IP, and the "valid-client-cert option" if a client certificate has
3472 PH/22 As suggested by Dennis Davis, added a server_condition option to *all*
3473 authenticators. This can be used for authorization after authentication
3474 succeeds. (In the case of plaintext, it servers for both authentication
3477 PH/23 Testing for tls_required and lost_connection in a retry rule didn't work
3478 if any retry times were supplied.
3480 PH/24 Exim crashed if verify=helo was activated during an incoming -bs
3481 connection, where there is no client IP address to check. In this
3482 situation, the verify now always succeeds.
3484 PH/25 Applied John Jetmore's -Mset patch.
3486 PH/26 Added -bem to be like -Mset, but loading a message from a file.
3488 PH/27 In a string expansion for a processed (not raw) header when multiple
3489 headers of the same name were present, leading whitespace was being
3490 removed from all of them, but trailing whitespace was being removed only
3491 from the last one. Now trailing whitespace is removed from each header
3492 before concatenation. Completely empty headers in a concatenation (as
3493 before) are ignored.
3495 PH/28 Fixed bug in backwards-compatibility feature of PH/09 (thanks to John
3496 Jetmore). It would have mis-read ACL variables from pre-4.61 spool files.
3498 PH/29 [Removed. This was a change that I later backed out, and forgot to
3499 correct the ChangeLog entry (that I had efficiently created) before
3500 committing the later change.]
3502 PH/30 Exim was sometimes attempting to deliver messages that had suffered
3503 address errors (4xx response to RCPT) over the same connection as other
3504 messages routed to the same hosts. Such deliveries are always "forced",
3505 so retry times are not inspected. This resulted in far too many retries
3506 for the affected addresses. The effect occurred only when there were more
3507 hosts than the hosts_max_try setting in the smtp transport when it had
3508 the 4xx errors. Those hosts that it had tried were not added to the list
3509 of hosts for which the message was waiting, so if all were tried, there
3510 was no problem. Two fixes have been applied:
3512 (i) If there are any address or message errors in an SMTP delivery, none
3513 of the hosts (tried or untried) are now added to the list of hosts
3514 for which the message is waiting, so the message should not be a
3515 candidate for sending over the same connection that was used for a
3516 successful delivery of some other message. This seems entirely
3517 reasonable: after all the message is NOT "waiting for some host".
3518 This is so "obvious" that I'm not sure why it wasn't done
3519 previously. Hope I haven't missed anything, but it can't do any
3520 harm, as the worst effect is to miss an optimization.
3522 (ii) If, despite (i), such a delivery is accidentally attempted, the
3523 routing retry time is respected, so at least it doesn't keep
3524 hammering the server.
3526 PH/31 Installed Andrew Findlay's patch to close the writing end of the socket
3527 in ${readsocket because some servers need this prod.
3529 PH/32 Added some extra debug output when updating a wait-xxx database.
3531 PH/33 The hint "could be header name not terminated by colon", which has been
3532 given for certain expansion errors for a long time, was not being given
3533 for the ${if def:h_colon_omitted{... case.
3535 PH/34 The spec says: "With one important exception, whenever a domain list is
3536 being scanned, $domain contains the subject domain." There was at least
3537 one case where this was not true.
3539 PH/35 The error "getsockname() failed: connection reset by peer" was being
3540 written to the panic log as well as the main log, but it isn't really
3541 panic-worthy as it just means the connection died rather early on. I have
3542 removed the panic log writing for the ECONNRESET error when getsockname()
3545 PH/36 After a 4xx response to a RCPT error, that address was delayed (in queue
3546 runs only) independently of the message's sender address. This meant
3547 that, if the 4xx error was in fact related to the sender, a different
3548 message to the same recipient with a different sender could confuse
3549 things. In particular, this can happen when sending to a greylisting
3550 server, but other circumstances could also provoke similar problems.
3551 I have changed the default so that the retry time for these errors is now
3552 based a combination of the sender and recipient addresses. This change
3553 can be overridden by setting address_retry_include_sender=false in the
3556 PH/37 For LMTP over TCP/IP (the smtp transport), error responses from the
3557 remote server are returned as part of bounce messages. This was not
3558 happening for LMTP over a pipe (the lmtp transport), but now it is the
3559 same for both kinds of LMTP.
3561 PH/38 Despite being documented as not happening, Exim was rewriting addresses
3562 in header lines that were in fact CNAMEs. This is no longer the case.
3564 PH/39 If -R or -S was given with -q<time>, the effect of -R or -S was ignored,
3565 and queue runs started by the daemon processed all messages. This has
3566 been fixed so that -R and -S can now usefully be given with -q<time>.
3568 PH/40 Import PCRE release 6.7 (fixes some bugs).
3570 PH/41 Add bitwise logical operations to eval (courtesy Brad Jorsch).
3572 PH/42 Give an error if -q is specified more than once.
3574 PH/43 Renamed the variables $interface_address and $interface_port as
3575 $received_ip_address and $received_port, to make it clear that these
3576 values apply to message reception, and not to the outgoing interface when
3577 a message is delivered. (The old names remain recognized, of course.)
3579 PH/44 There was no timeout on the connect() call when using a Unix domain
3580 socket in the ${readsocket expansion. There now is.
3582 PH/45 Applied a modified version of Brad Jorsch's patch to allow "message" to
3583 be meaningful with "accept".
3585 SC/01 Eximstats V1.43
3586 Bug fix for V1.42 with -h0 specified. Spotted by Chris Lear.
3588 SC/02 Eximstats V1.44
3589 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in the generated
3590 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3592 SC/03 Eximstats V1.45 (Marco Gaiarin / Steve Campbell)
3593 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics.
3594 Don't display local sender or destination tables unless
3595 there is data to show.
3596 Added average volumes into the top table text output.
3598 SC/04 Eximstats V1.46
3599 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients)
3600 as well as the number of messages.
3602 SC/05 Eximstats V1.47
3603 Added 'Message too big' to the list of mail rejection
3604 reasons (thanks to Marco Gaiarin).
3606 SC/06 Eximstats V1.48
3607 Mainlog lines which have GMT offsets and are too short to
3608 have a flag are now skipped.
3610 SC/07 Eximstats V1.49 (Alain Williams)
3611 Added the -emptyok flag.
3613 SC/08 Eximstats V1.50
3614 Fixes for obtaining the IP address from reject messages.
3616 JJ/03 exipick.20061117.2, made header handling as similar to exim as possible
3617 (added [br]h_ prefixes, implemented RFC2047 decoding. Fixed
3618 whitespace changes from 4.64-PH/27
3620 JJ/04 exipick.20061117.2, fixed format and added $message_headers_raw to
3623 JJ/05 exipick.20061117.2, bug fixes (error out sooner when invalid criteria
3624 are found, allow negative numbers in numeric criteria)
3626 JJ/06 exipick.20061117.2, added new $message_body_missing variable
3628 JJ/07 exipick.20061117.2, added $received_ip_address and $received_port
3629 to match changes made in 4.64-PH/43
3631 PH/46 Applied Jori Hamalainen's patch to add features to exiqsumm.
3633 PH/47 Put in an explicit test for a DNS lookup of an address record where the
3634 "domain" is actually an IP address, and force a failure. This locks out
3635 those revolvers/nameservers that support "A-for-A" lookups, in
3636 contravention of the specifications.
3638 PH/48 When a host name was looked up from an IP address, and the subsequent
3639 forward lookup of the name timed out, the host name was left in
3640 $sender_host_name, contrary to the specification.
3642 PH/49 Although default lookup types such as lsearch* or cdb*@ have always been
3643 restricted to single-key lookups, Exim was not diagnosing an error if
3644 * or *@ was used with a query-style lookup.
3646 PH/50 Increased the value of DH_BITS in tls-gnu.c from 768 to 1024.
3648 MH/01 local_scan ABI version incremented to 1.1. It should have been updated
3649 long ago, but noone interested enough thought of it. Let's just say that
3650 the "1.1" means that there are some new functions that weren't there at
3651 some point in the past.
3653 PH/51 Error processing for expansion failure of helo_data from an smtp
3654 transport during callout processing was broken.
3656 PH/52 Applied John Jetmore's patch to allow tls-on-connect and STARTTLS to be
3657 tested/used via the -bh/-bhc/-bs options.
3659 PH/53 Added missing "#include <time.h>" to pcre/pcretest.c (this was a PCRE
3660 bug, fixed in subsequent PCRE releases).
3662 PH/54 Applied Robert Bannocks' patch to avoid a problem with references that
3663 arises when using the Solaris LDAP libraries (but not with OpenLDAP).
3665 PH/55 Check for a ridiculously long file name in exim_dbmbuild.
3671 SC/01 Use a glob alias rather than an array ref in eximstats generated
3672 parser. This improves both readability and performance.
3674 SC/02 Collect SpamAssassin and rejection statistics in eximstats.
3675 Don't display local sender or destination tables in eximstats unless
3676 there is data to show.
3677 Added average volumes into the eximstats top table text output.
3679 SC/03 Collect data on the number of addresses (recipients) as well
3680 as the number of messages in eximstats.
3682 TF/01 Correct an error in the documentation for the redirect router. Exim
3683 does (usually) call initgroups() when daemonizing.
3685 TF/02 Call initgroups() when dropping privilege in exim.c, so that Exim runs
3686 with consistent privilege compared to when running as a daemon.
3688 TF/03 Note in the spec that $authenticated_id is not set for local
3689 submissions from trusted users.
3691 TF/04 The ratelimit per_rcpt option now works correctly in acl_not_smtp.
3692 Thanks to Dean Brooks <dean@iglou.com> for the patch.
3694 TF/05 Make it easier to get SMTP authentication and TLS/SSL support working
3695 by adding some example configuration directives to the default
3696 configuration file. A little bit of work is required to uncomment the
3697 directives and define how usernames and passwords are checked, but
3698 there is now a framework to start from.
3700 PH/01 Added #define LDAP_DEPRECATED 1 to ldap.c because some of the "old"
3701 functions that Exim currently uses aren't defined in ldap.h for OpenLDAP
3702 without this. I don't know how relevant this is to other LDAP libraries.
3704 PH/02 Add the verb name to the "unknown ACL verb" error.
3706 PH/03 Magnus Holmgren's patch for filter_prepend_home.
3708 PH/03 Fixed Bugzilla #101: macro definition between ACLs doesn't work.
3710 PH/04 Applied Magnus Holmgren's patch to fix Bugzilla #98: transport's home
3711 directory not expanded when it should be if an expanded home directory
3712 was set for the address (which is overridden by the transport).
3714 PH/05 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch to fix Bugzilla #99: a problem with
3717 PH/06 Added acl_not_smtp_start, based on Johannes Berg's patch, and set the
3718 bit to forbid control=suppress_local_fixups in the acl_not_smtp ACL,
3719 because it is too late at that time, and has no effect.
3721 PH/07 Changed ${quote_pgsql to quote ' as '' instead of \' because of a
3722 security issue with \' (bugzilla #107). I could not use the
3723 PQescapeStringConn() function, because it needs a PGconn value as one of
3726 PH/08 When testing addresses using -bt, indicate those final addresses that
3727 are duplicates that would not cause an additional delivery. At least one
3728 person was confused, thinking that -bt output corresponded to deliveries.
3729 (Suppressing duplicates isn't a good idea as you lose the information
3730 about possibly different redirections that led to the duplicates.)
3732 PH/09 Applied patch from Erik to use select() instead of poll() in spam.c on
3733 systems where poll() doesn't work, in particular OS X.
3735 PH/10 Added more information to debugging output for retry time not reached.
3737 PH/11 Applied patch from Arkadiusz Miskiewicz to apply a timeout to read
3738 operations in malware.c.
3740 PH/12 Applied patch from Magnus Holmgren to include the "h" tag in Domain Keys
3743 PH/13 If write_rejectlog was set false when logging was sent to syslog with
3744 syslog_duplication set false, log lines that would normally be written
3745 both the the main log and to the reject log were not written to syslog at
3748 PH/14 In the default configuration, change the use of "message" in ACL warn
3749 statements to "add_header".
3751 PH/15 Diagnose a filter syntax error for "seen", "unseen", or "noerror" if not
3752 not followed by a command (e.g. "seen endif").
3754 PH/16 Recognize SMTP codes at the start of "message" in ACLs and after :fail:
3755 and :defer: in a redirect router. Add forbid_smtp_code to suppress the
3758 PH/17 Added extra conditions to the default value of delay_warning_condition
3762 { !eq{$h_list-id:$h_list-post:$h_list-subscribe:}{} } \
3763 { match{$h_precedence:}{(?i)bulk|list|junk} } \
3764 { match{$h_auto-submitted:}{(?i)auto-generated|auto-replied} } \
3767 The Auto-Submitted: and various List- headers are standardised, whereas I
3768 don't think Precedence: ever was.
3770 PH/18 Refactored debugging code in route_finduser() to show more information,
3771 in particular, the error code if getpwnam() issues one.
3773 PH/19 Added PQsetClientEncoding(conn, "SQL_ASCII") to the pgsql code module.
3774 This is apparently needed in addition to the PH/07 change above to avoid
3775 any possible encoding problems.
3777 PH/20 Perl can change the locale. Exim was resetting it after a ${perl call,
3778 but not after initializing Perl.
3780 PH/21 Added a call to PQsetNoticeProcessor() to catch pgsql "notices" and
3781 output them only if debugging. By default they are written stderr,
3782 apparently, which is not desirable.
3784 PH/22 Added Alain Williams' LDAP patch to support setting REFERRALS=off on
3787 JJ/01 exipick: added --reverse (and -R synonym), --random, --size, --sort and
3790 JJ/02 exipick: rewrote --help documentation to hopefully make more clear.
3792 PH/23 Made -oMaa and -oMt work with -bh and -bs to pretend the connection is
3793 authenticated or an ident call has been made. Suppress the default
3794 values for $authenticated_id and $authenticated_sender (but permit -oMai
3795 and -oMas) when testing with -bh.
3797 PH/24 Re-jigged the order of the tests in the default configuration so that the
3798 tests for valid domains and recipients precede the DNS black list and CSA
3799 tests, on the grounds that those ones are more expensive.
3801 PH/25 Exim was not testing for a space following SMTP commands such as EHLO
3802 that require one. Thus, EHLORHUBARB was interpreted as a valid command.
3803 This bug exists in every version of Exim that I still have, right back to
3806 PH/26 (n)wildlsearch lookups are documented as being done case-insensitively.
3807 However, an attempt to turn on case-sensitivity in a regex key by
3808 including (?-i) didn't work because the subject string was already
3809 lowercased, and the effects were non-intuitive. It turns out that a
3810 one-line patch can be used to allow (?-i) to work as expected.
3816 TF/01 Fix the add_header change below (4.61 PH/55) which had a bug that (amongst
3817 other effects) broke the use of negated acl sub-conditions.
3819 PH/01 ${readsocket now supports Internet domain sockets (modified John Jetmore
3822 PH/02 When tcp-wrappers is called from Exim, it returns only "deny" or "allow".
3823 "Deny" causes Exim to reject the incoming connection with a 554 error.
3824 Unfortunately, if there is a major crisis, such as a disk failure,
3825 tcp-wrappers gives "deny", whereas what one would like would be some
3826 kind of temporary error. A kludge has been added to help with this.
3827 Before calling hosts_ctl(), errno is set zero. If the result is "deny", a
3828 554 error is used if errno is still zero or contains ENOENT (which occurs
3829 if either of the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files is missing). Otherwise, a
3832 PH/03 Add -lutil to the default FreeBSD LIBS setting.
3834 PH/04 Change PH/19 for 4.61 was too wide. It should not be applied to host
3835 errors. Otherwise a message that provokes a temporary error (when other
3836 messages do not) can cause a whole host to time out.
3838 PH/05 Batch deliveries by appendfile and pipe transports did not work when the
3839 addresses were routed directly to files or pipes from a redirect router.
3840 File deliveries just didn't batch; pipe deliveries might have suffered
3843 PH/06 A failure to get a lock for a hints database would erroneously always say
3844 "Failed to get write lock", even when it was really a read lock.
3846 PH/07 The appendfile transport was creating MBX lock files with a fixed mode
3847 of 0600. This has been changed to use the value of the lockfile_mode
3848 option (which defaults to 0600).
3850 PH/08 Applied small patch from the Sieve maintainer.
3852 PH/09 If maildir_quota_directory_regex was set to exclude (say) the .Trash
3853 folder from quota calculations, a direct delivery into this folder messed
3854 up the contents of the maildirsize file. This was because the regex was
3855 used only to exclude .Trash (or whatever) when the size of the mailbox
3856 was calculated. There was no check that a delivery was happening into an
3857 excluded directory. This bug has been fixed by ignoring all quota
3858 processing for deliveries into excluded directories.
3860 PH/10 Added the maildirfolder_create_regex option to appendfile.
3866 PH/01 The code for finding all the local interface addresses on a FreeBSD
3867 system running IPv6 was broken. This may well have applied to all BSD
3868 systems, as well as to others that have similar system calls. The broken
3869 code found IPv4 interfaces correctly, but gave incorrect values for the
3870 IPv6 interfaces. In particular, ::1 was not found. The effect in Exim was
3871 that it would not match correctly against @[] and not recognize the IPv6
3874 PH/02 The ipliteral router was not recognizing addresses of the form user@
3875 [ipv6:....] because it didn't know about the "ipv6:" prefix.
3877 PH/03 Added disable_ipv6.
3879 PH/04 Changed $reply_address to use the raw form of the headers instead of the
3880 decoded form, because it is most often used to construct To: headers
3881 lines in autoreplies, and the decoded form may well be syntactically
3882 invalid. However, $reply_address has leading white space removed, and all
3883 newlines turned into spaces so that the autoreply transport does not
3886 PH/05 If group was specified without a user on a router, and no group or user
3887 was specified on a transport, the group from the router was ignored.
3889 PH/06 Increased the number of ACL variables to 20 of each type, and arranged
3890 for visible compile-time settings that can be used to change these
3891 numbers, for those that want even more. Backwards compatibility with old
3892 spool files has been maintained. However, going back to a previous Exim
3893 release will lost any variables that are in spool files.
3895 PH/07 Two small changes when running in the test harness: increase delay when
3896 passing a TCP/IP connection to a new process, in case the original
3897 process has to generate a bounce, and remove special handling of
3898 127.0.0.2 (sic), which is no longer necessary.
3900 PH/08 Changed debug output of dbfn_open() flags from numbers to names, so as to
3901 be the same on different OS.
3903 PH/09 Moved a debug statement in filter processing to avoid a race problem when
3906 JJ/01 exipick: fixed bug where -b (brief) output option showed "Vars:"
3907 whether --show-vars was specified or not
3909 JJ/02 exipick: Added support for new ACL variable spool format introduced
3912 PH/10 Fixed another bug related to PH/04 above: if an incoming message had a
3913 syntactically invalid From: or Reply-to: line, and a filter used this to
3914 generate an autoreply, and therefore failed to obtain an address for the
3915 autoreply, Exim could try to deliver to a non-existent relative file
3916 name, causing unrelated and misleading errors. What now happens is that
3917 it logs this as a hard delivery error, but does not attempt to create a
3920 PH/11 The exinext utility has a -C option for testing purposes, but although
3921 the given file was scanned by exinext itself; it wasn't being passed on
3922 when Exim was called.
3924 PH/12 In the smtp transport, treat an explicit ECONNRESET error the same as
3925 an end-of-file indication when reading a command response.
3927 PH/13 Domain literals for IPv6 were not recognized unless IPv6 support was
3928 compiled. In many other places in Exim, IPv6 addresses are always
3929 recognized, so I have changed this. It also means that IPv4 domain
3930 literals of the form [IPV4:n.n.n.n] are now always recognized.
3932 PH/14 When a uid/gid is specified for the queryprogram router, it cannot be
3933 used if the router is not running as root, for example, when verifying at
3934 ACL time, or when using -bh. The debugging output from this situation was
3935 non-existent - all you got was a failure to exec. I have made two
3938 (a) Failures to set uid/gid, the current directory, or a process leader
3939 in a subprocess such as that created by queryprogram now generate
3940 suitable debugging output when -d is set.
3942 (b) The queryprogram router detects when it is not running as root,
3943 outputs suitable debugging information if -d is set, and then runs
3944 the subprocess without attempting to change uid/gid.
3946 PH/15 Minor change to Makefile for building test_host (undocumented testing
3949 PH/16 As discussed on the list in Nov/Dec: Exim no longer looks at the
3950 additional section of a DNS packet that returns MX or SRV records.
3951 Instead, it always explicitly searches for A/AAAA records. This avoids
3952 major problems that occur when a DNS server includes only records of one
3953 type (A or AAAA) in an MX/SRV packet. A byproduct of this change has
3954 fixed another bug: if SRV records were looked up and the corresponding
3955 address records were *not* found in the additional section, the port
3956 values from the SRV records were lost.
3958 PH/17 If a delivery to a pipe, file, or autoreply was deferred, Exim was not
3959 using the correct key (the original address) when searching the retry
3960 rules in order to find which one to use for generating the retry hint.
3962 PH/18 If quota_warn_message contains a From: header, Exim now refrains from
3963 adding the default one. Similarly, if it contains a Reply-To: header, the
3964 errors_reply_to option, if set, is not used.
3966 PH/19 When calculating a retry time, Exim used to measure the "time since
3967 failure" by looking at the "first failed" field in the retry record. Now
3968 it does not use this if it is later than than the arrival time of the
3969 message. Instead it uses the arrival time. This makes for better
3970 behaviour in cases where some deliveries succeed, thus re-setting the
3971 "first failed" field. An example is a quota failure for a huge message
3972 when small messages continue to be delivered. Without this change, the
3973 "time since failure" will always be short, possible causing more frequent
3974 delivery attempts for the huge message than are intended.
3975 [Note: This change was subsequently modified - see PH/04 for 4.62.]
3977 PH/20 Added $auth1, $auth2, $auth3 to contain authentication data (as well as
3978 $1, $2, $3) because the numerical variables can be reset during some
3979 expansion items (e.g. "match"), thereby losing the authentication data.
3981 PH/21 Make -bV show the size of off_t variables so that the test suite can
3982 decide whether to run tests for quotas > 2G.
3984 PH/22 Test the values given for quota, quota_filecount, quota_warn_threshold,
3985 mailbox_size, and mailbox_filecount in the appendfile transport. If a
3986 filecount value is greater than 2G or if a quota value is greater than 2G
3987 on a system where the size of off_t is not greater than 4, a panic error
3990 PH/23 When a malformed item such as 1.2.3/24 appears in a host list, it can
3991 never match. The debug and -bh output now contains an explicit error
3992 message indicating a malformed IPv4 address or mask.
3994 PH/24 An host item such as 1.2.3.4/abc was being treated as the IP address
3995 1.2.3.4 without a mask. Now it is not recognized as an IP address, and
3996 PH/23 above applies.
3998 PH/25 Do not write to syslog when running in the test harness. The only
3999 occasion when this arises is a failure to open the main or panic logs
4000 (for which there is an explicit test).
4002 PH/26 Added the /no_tell option to "control=freeze".
4004 PH/27 If a host name lookup failed very early in a connection, for example, if
4005 the IP address matched host_lookup and the reverse lookup yielded a name
4006 that did not have a forward lookup, an error message of the form "no IP
4007 address found for host xxx.xxx.xxx (during SMTP connection from NULL)"
4008 could be logged. Now it outputs the IP address instead of "NULL".
4010 PH/28 An enabling patch from MH: add new function child_open_exim2() which
4011 allows the sender and the authenticated sender to be set when
4012 submitting a message from within Exim. Since child_open_exim() is
4013 documented for local_scan(), the new function should be too.
4015 PH/29 In GnuTLS, a forced expansion failure for tls_privatekey was not being
4016 ignored. In both GnuTLS and OpenSSL, an expansion of tls_privatekey that
4017 results in an empty string is now treated as unset.
4019 PH/30 Fix eximon buffer overflow bug (Bugzilla #73).
4021 PH/31 Added sender_verify_fail logging option.
4023 PH/32 In November 2003, the code in Exim that added an empty Bcc: header when
4024 needed by RFC 822 but not by RFC 2822 was commented out. I have now
4025 tidied the source and removed it altogether.
4027 PH/33 When a queue run was abandoned because the load average was too high, a
4028 log line was always written; now it is written only if the queue_run log
4029 selector is set. In addition, the log line for abandonment now contains
4030 information about the queue run such as the pid. This is always present
4031 in "start" and "stop" lines but was omitted from the "abandon" line.
4033 PH/34 Omit spaces between a header name and the colon in the error message that
4034 is given when verify = headers_syntax fails (if there are lots of them,
4035 the message gets confusing).
4037 PH/35 Change the default for dns_check_names_pattern to allow slashes within
4038 names, as there are now some PTR records that contain slashes. This check
4039 is only to protect against broken name servers that fall over on strange
4040 characters, so the fact that it applies to all lookups doesn't matter.
4042 PH/36 Now that the new test suite is complete, we can remove some of the
4043 special code in Exim that was needed for the old test suite. For example,
4044 sorting DNS records because real resolvers return them in an arbitrary
4045 order. The new test suite's fake resolver always returns records in the
4048 PH/37 When running in the test harness, use -odi for submitted messages (e.g.
4049 bounces) except when queue_only is set, to avoid logging races between
4050 the different processes.
4052 PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.
4054 PH/39 A tweak to the "H" retry rule from its user.
4056 JJ/03 exipick: Removed parentheses from 'next' and 'last' calls that specified
4057 a label. They prevented compilation on older perls.
4059 JJ/04 exipick: Refactored code to prevent implicit split to @_ which caused
4060 a warning to be raised on newish perls.
4062 JJ/05 exipick: Fixed bug where -bpc always showed a count of all messages
4063 on queue. Changes to match documented behaviour of showing count of
4064 messages matching specified criteria.
4066 PH/40 Changed the default ident timeout from 30s to 5s.
4068 PH/41 Added support for the use of login_cap features, on those BSD systems
4069 that have them, for controlling the resources used by pipe deliveries.
4071 PH/42 The content-scanning code uses fopen() to create files in which to put
4072 message data. Previously it was not paying any attention to the mode of
4073 the files. Exim runs with umask(0) because the rest of the code creates
4074 files with open(), and sets the required mode explicitly. Thus, these
4075 files were ending up world-writeable. This was not a big issue, because,
4076 being within the spool directory, they were not world-accessible. I have
4077 created a function called modefopen, which takes an additional mode
4078 argument. It sets umask(777), creates the file, chmods it to the required
4079 mode, then resets the umask. All the relevant calls to fopen() in the
4080 content scanning code have been changed to use this function.
4082 PH/43 If retry_interval_max is set greater than 24 hours, it is quietly reset
4083 to 24 hours. This avoids potential overflow problems when processing G
4084 and H retry rules. I suspect nobody ever tinkers with this value.
4086 PH/44 Added STRIP_COMMAND=/usr/bin/strip to the FreeBSD Makefile.
4088 PH/45 When the plaintext authenticator is running as a client, the server's
4089 challenges are checked to ensure they are valid base64 strings. By
4090 default, the authentication attempt is cancelled if an invalid string is
4091 received. Setting client_ignore_invalid_base64 true ignores these errors.
4092 The decoded challenge strings are now placed in $auth1, $auth2, etc. as
4093 they are received. Thus, the responses can be made to depend on the
4094 challenges. If an invalid string is ignored, an empty string is placed in
4097 PH/46 Messages that are created by the autoreply transport now contains a
4098 References: header, in accordance with RFCs 2822 and 3834.
4100 PH/47 Added authenticated_sender_force to the smtp transport.
4102 PH/48 The ${prvs expansion was broken on systems where time_t was long long.
4104 PH/49 Installed latest patch from the Sieve maintainer.
4106 PH/50 When an Exim quota was set without a file count quota, and mailbox_size
4107 was also set, the appendfile transport was unnecessarily scanning a
4108 directory of message files (e.g. for maildir delivery) to find the count
4109 of files (along with the size), even though it did not need this
4110 information. It now does the scan only if it needs to find either the
4111 size of the count of files.
4113 PH/51 Added ${time_eval: to convert Exim time strings into seconds.
4115 PH/52 Two bugs concerned with error handling when the smtp transport is
4118 (i) Exim was not creating retry information for temporary errors given
4119 for individual recipients after the DATA command when the smtp transport
4120 was used in LMTP mode. This meant that they could be retried too
4121 frequently, and not timed out correctly.
4123 (ii) Exim was setting the flag that allows error details to be returned
4124 for LMTP errors on RCPT commands, but not for LMTP errors for individual
4125 recipients that were returned after the DATA command.
4127 PH/53 This is related to PH/52, but is more general: for any failing address,
4128 when detailed error information was permitted to be returned to the
4129 sender, but the error was temporary, then after the final timeout, only
4130 "retry timeout exceeded" was returned. Now it returns the full error as
4131 well as "retry timeout exceeded".
4133 PH/54 Added control=allow_auth_unadvertised, as it seems there are clients that
4134 do this, and (what is worse) MTAs that accept it.
4136 PH/55 Added the add_header modified to ACLs. The use of "message" with "warn"
4137 will now be deprecated.
4139 PH/56 New os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4141 JJ/06 exipick: added --unsorted option to allow unsorted output in all output
4142 formats (previously only available in exim formats via -bpr, -bpru,
4143 and -bpra. Now also available in native and exiqgrep formats)
4145 JJ/07 exipick: added --freeze and --thaw options to allow faster interaction
4146 with very large, slow to parse queues
4148 JJ/08 exipick: added ! as generic prefix to negate any criteria format
4150 JJ/09 exipick: miscellaneous performance enhancements (~24% improvements)
4152 PH/57 Tidies in SMTP dialogue display in debug output: (i) It was not showing
4153 responses to authentication challenges, though it was showing the
4154 challenges; (ii) I've removed the CR characters from the debug output for
4157 PH/58 Allow for the insertion of a newline as well as a space when a string
4158 is turned into more than one encoded-word during RFC 2047 encoding. The
4159 Sieve code now uses this.
4161 PH/59 Added the following errors that can be detected in retry rules: mail_4xx,
4162 data_4xx, lost_connection, tls_required.
4164 PH/60 When a VRFY deferred or FAILED, the log message rather than the user
4165 message was being sent as an SMTP response.
4167 PH/61 Add -l and -k options to exicyclog.
4169 PH/62 When verifying, if an address was redirected to one new address, so that
4170 verification continued, and the new address failed or deferred after
4171 having set something in $address_data, the value of $address_data was not
4172 passed back to the ACL. This was different to the case when no
4173 redirection occurred. The value is now passed back in both cases.
4175 PH/63 Changed the macro HAVE_LOGIN_CAP (see PH/41 for this release above) to
4176 HAVE_SETCLASSRESOURCES because there are different APIs in use that all
4177 use login_cap.h, so on its own it isn't the distinguishing feature. The
4178 new name refers directly to the setclassresources() function.
4180 PH/65 Added configuration files for NetBSD3.
4182 PH/66 Updated OS/Makefile-HP-UX for gcc 4.1.0 with HP-UX 11.
4184 PH/67 Fixed minor infelicity in the sorting of addresses to ensure that IPv6
4185 is preferred over IPv4.
4187 PH/68 The bounce_return_message and bounce_return_body options were not being
4188 honoured for bounces generated during the reception of non-SMTP messages.
4189 In particular, this applied to messages rejected by the ACL. This bug has
4190 been fixed. However, if bounce_return_message is true and bounce_return_
4191 body is false, the headers that are returned for a non-SMTP message
4192 include only those that have been read before the error was detected.
4193 (In the case of an ACL rejection, they have all been read.)
4195 PH/69 The HTML version of the specification is now built in a directory called
4196 spec_html instead of spec.html, because the latter looks like a path with
4197 a MIME-type, and this confuses some software.
4199 PH/70 Catch two compiler warnings in sieve.c.
4201 PH/71 Fixed an obscure and subtle bug (thanks Alexander & Matthias). The
4202 function verify_get_ident() calls ip_connect() to connect a socket, but
4203 if the "connect()" function timed out, ip_connect() used to close the
4204 socket. However, verify_get_ident() also closes the socket later, and in
4205 between Exim writes to the log, which may get opened at this point. When
4206 the socket was closed in ip_connect(), the log could get the same file
4207 descriptor number as the socket. This naturally causes chaos. The fix is
4208 not to close the socket in ip_connect(); the socket should be closed by
4209 the function that creates it. There was only one place in the code where
4210 this was missing, in the iplookup router, which I don't think anybody now
4211 uses, but I've fixed it anyway.
4213 PH/72 Make dns_again_means_nonexist apply to lookups using gethostbyname() as
4214 well as to direct DNS lookups. Otherwise the handling of names in host
4215 lists is inconsistent and therefore confusing.
4221 PH/01 Two changes to the default runtime configuration:
4223 (1) Move the checks for relay_from_hosts and authenticated clients from
4224 after to before the (commented out) DNS black list checks.
4226 (2) Add control=submission to the relay_from_hosts and authenticated
4227 clients checks, on the grounds that messages accepted by these
4228 statements are most likely to be submissions.
4230 PH/02 Several tidies to the handling of ${prvs and ${prvscheck:
4232 (1) Generate an error if the third argument for the ${prvs expansion is
4235 (2) Treat a missing third argument of ${prvscheck as if it were an empty
4238 (3) Reset the variables that are obtained from the first argument of
4239 ${prvscheck and used in the second argument before leaving the code,
4240 because their memory is reclaimed, so using them afterwards may do
4243 (4) Tidy up the code for expanding the arguments of ${prvscheck one by
4244 one (it's much easier than Tom thought :-).
4246 (5) Because of (4), we can now allow for the use of $prvscheck_result
4247 inside the third argument.
4249 PH/03 For some reason, the default setting of PATH when running a command from
4250 a pipe transport was just "/usr/bin". I have changed it to
4253 PH/04 SUPPORT_TRANSLATE_IP_ADDRESS and MOVE_FROZEN_MESSAGES did not cause
4254 anything to be listed in the output from -bV.
4256 PH/05 When a filter generated an autoreply, the entire To: header line was
4257 quoted in the delivery log line, like this:
4259 => >A.N.Other <ano@some.domain> <original@ddress> ...
4261 This has been changed so that it extracts the operative address. There
4262 may be more than one such address. If so, they are comma-separated, like
4265 => >ano@some.domain,ona@other.domain <original@ddress> ...
4267 PH/06 When a client host used a correct literal IP address in a HELO or EHLO
4268 command, (for example, EHLO [1.2.3.4]) and the client's IP address was
4269 not being looked up in the rDNS to get a host name, Exim was showing the
4270 IP address twice in Received: lines, even though the IP addresses were
4271 identical. For example:
4273 Received: from [1.2.3.4] (helo=[1.2.3.4])
4275 However, if the real host name was known, it was omitting the HELO data
4276 if it matched the actual IP address. This has been tidied up so that it
4277 doesn't show the same IP address twice.
4279 PH/07 When both +timestamp and +memory debugging was on, the value given by
4280 $tod_xxx expansions could be wrong, because the tod_stamp() function was
4281 called by the debug printing, thereby overwriting the timestamp buffer.
4282 Debugging no longer uses the tod_stamp() function when +timestamp is set.
4284 PH/08 When the original message was included in an autoreply transport, it
4285 always said "this is a copy of the message, including all the headers",
4286 even if body_only or headers_only was set. It now gives an appropriate
4289 PH/09 Applied a patch from the Sieve maintainer which:
4291 o fixes some comments
4292 o adds the (disabled) notify extension core
4293 o adds some debug output for the result of if/elsif tests
4294 o points to the current vacation draft in the documentation
4295 and documents the missing references header update
4299 o fixes a bug in processing the envelope test (when testing
4300 multiple envelope elements, the last element determined the
4303 PH/10 Exim was violating RFC 3834 ("Recommendations for Automatic Responses to
4304 Electronic Mail") by including:
4306 Auto-submitted: auto-generated
4308 in the messages that it generates (bounce messages and others, such as
4309 warnings). In the case of bounce messages for non-SMTP messages, there was
4310 also a typo: it was using "Auto_submitted" (underscore instead of
4311 hyphen). Since every message generated by Exim is necessarily in response
4312 to another message, thes have all been changed to:
4314 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
4316 in accordance with these statements in the RFC:
4318 The auto-replied keyword:
4320 - SHOULD be used on messages sent in direct response to another
4321 message by an automatic process,
4323 - MUST NOT be used on manually-generated messages,
4325 - MAY be used on Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) and Message
4326 Disposition Notifications (MDNs),
4328 - MUST NOT be used on messages generated by automatic or periodic
4329 processes, except for messages which are automatic responses to
4332 PH/11 Added "${if def:sender_address {(envelope-from <$sender_address>)\n\t}}"
4333 to the default Received: header definition.
4335 PH/12 Added log selector acl_warn_skipped (default on).
4337 PH/13 After a successful wildlsearch lookup, discard the values of numeric
4338 variables because (a) they are in the wrong storage pool and (b) even if
4339 they were copied, it wouldn't work properly because of the caching.
4341 PH/14 Add check_rfc2047_length to disable enforcement of RFC 2047 length
4342 checking when decoding. Apparently there are clients that generate
4343 overlong encoded strings. Why am I not surprised?
4345 PH/15 If the first argument of "${if match_address" was not empty, but did not
4346 contain an "@" character, Exim crashed. Now it writes a panic log message
4347 and treats the condition as false.
4349 PH/16 In autoreply, treat an empty string for "once" the same as unset.
4351 PH/17 A further patch from the Sieve maintainer: "Introduce the new Sieve
4352 extension "envelope-auth". The code is finished and in agreement with
4353 other implementations, but there is no documentation so far and in fact,
4354 nobody wrote the draft yet. This extension is currently #undef'ed, thus
4355 not changing the active code.
4357 Print executed "if" and "elsif" statements when debugging is used. This
4358 helps a great deal to understand what a filter does.
4360 Document more things not specified clearly in RFC3028. I had all this
4361 sorted out, when out of a sudden new issues came to my mind. Oops."
4363 PH/18 Exim was not recognizing the "net-" search type prefix in match_ip lists
4366 PH/19 Exim expands the IPv6 address given to -bh to its full non-abbreviated
4367 canonical form (as documented). However, after a host name lookup from
4368 the IP address, check_host() was doing a simple string comparison with
4369 addresses acquired from the DNS when checking that the found name did
4370 have the original IP as one of its addresses. Since any found IPv6
4371 addresses are likely to be in abbreviated form, the comparison could
4372 fail. Luckily, there already exists a function for doing the comparison
4373 by converting both addresses to binary, so now that is used instead of
4374 the text comparison.
4376 PH/20 There was another similar case to PH/19, when a complete host name was
4377 given in a host list; looking up its IP address could give an abbreviated
4378 form, whereas the current host's name might or might not be abbreviated.
4379 The same fix has been applied.
4385 PH/01 The ${base62: operator adjusted itself to base 36 when BASE_62 was
4386 set to 36 (for Darwin and Cygwin), but the ${base62d: operator did not.
4389 PH/02 Two minor problems detected in Cygwin: the os.{c,h} files had lost */ on
4390 the CVS lines, and there was a missing #if HAVE_IPV6 in host.c.
4392 PH/03 Typo: missing ".o" in src/pcre/Makefile.
4394 PH/04 Tighten up "personal" tests: Instead of testing for any "List-"
4395 header line, restrict the check to what is listed in RFCs 2369 and 2929.
4396 Also, for "Auto-Submitted", treat anything other than "no" as
4397 non-personal, in accordance with RFC 3834. (Previously it treated
4398 anything starting "auto-" as non-personal.)
4400 TF/01 The control=submission/name=... option had a problem with syntax
4401 errors if the name included a slash character. The /name= option
4402 now slurps the rest of the string, so it can include any characters
4403 but it must come last in the list of options (after /sender_retain
4406 PH/05 Some modifications to the interface to the fake nameserver for the new
4414 TK/01 Added the "success_on_redirect" address verification option. See
4415 NewStuff for rationale and an example.
4417 PH/01 Added support for SQLite, basic code supplied by David Woodhouse.
4419 PH/02 Patch to exigrep to allow it to work on syslog lines.
4421 PH/03 When creating an mbox file for a virus/spam scan, use fseek() instead of
4422 fread() to skip over the body file's header line, because in Cygwin the
4423 header line is locked and is inaccessible.
4425 PH/04 Added $message_exim_id, ultimately to replace $message_id (they will both
4426 co-exist for some time) to make it clear that it is the Exim ID that is
4427 referenced, not the Message-ID: header line.
4429 PH/05 Replaced all Tom's calls to snprintf() with calls to the internal
4430 string_format() function, because snprintf() does not exist on all
4433 PH/06 The use of forbid_filter_existstest now also locks out the use of the
4434 ${stat: expansion item.
4436 PH/07 Changed "SMTP protocol violation: synchronization error" into "SMTP
4437 protocol synchronization error", to keep the pedants happy.
4439 PH/08 Arrange for USE_INET_NTOA_FIX to be set in config.h for AIX systems as
4440 well as for IRIX systems, when gcc is being used. See the host.c source
4443 PH/09 Installed latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
4445 PH/10 Named domain lists were not working if used in a queue_smtp_domains
4448 PH/11 Added support for the IGNOREQUOTA extension to LMTP, both to the lmtp
4449 transport and to the smtp transport in LMTP mode.
4451 TK/02 Remove one case of BASE64 error detection FTTB (undocumented anyway).
4453 PH/12 There was a missing call to search_tidyup() before the fork() in rda.c to
4454 run a filter in a subprocess. This could lead to confusion in subsequent
4455 lookups in the parent process. There should also be a search_tidyup() at
4456 the end of the subprocess.
4458 PH/13 Previously, if "verify = helo" was set in an ACL, the condition was true
4459 only if the host matched helo_try_verify_hosts, which caused the
4460 verification to occur when the EHLO/HELO command was issued. The ACL just
4461 tested the remembered result. Now, if a previous verification attempt has
4462 not happened, "verify = helo" does it there and then.
4464 JJ/01 exipick: added $message_exim_id variable (see 4.53-PH/04)
4466 TK/03 Fix log output including CR from clamd.
4468 PH/14 A reference to $reply_address when Reply-to: was empty and From: did not
4469 exist provoked a memory error which could cause a segfault.
4471 PH/15 Installed PCRE 6.2
4473 PH/17 Defined BIND_8_COMPAT in the Darwin os.h file.
4475 PH/18 Reversed 4.52/PH/17 because the HP-UX user found it wasn't the cause
4476 of the problem. Specifically, suggested +O2 rather than +O1 for the
4479 PH/19 Added sqlite_lock_timeout option (David Woodhouse's patch).
4481 PH/20 If a delivery was routed to a non-standard port by means of an SRV
4482 record, the port was not correctly logged when the outgoing_port log
4483 selector was set (it logged the transort's default port).
4485 PH/21 Added support for host-specific ports to manualroute, queryprogram,
4486 fallback_hosts, and "hosts" in the smtp transport.
4488 PH/22 If the log selector "outgoing_port" is set, the port is now also given on
4489 host errors such as "Connection refused".
4491 PH/23 Applied a patch to fix problems with exim-4.52 while doing radius
4492 authentication with radiusclient 0.4.9:
4494 - Error returned from rc_read_config was caught wrongly
4495 - Username/password not passed on to radius server due to wrong length.
4497 The presumption is that some radiusclient API changes for 4.51/PH/17
4498 were not taken care of correctly. The code is still untested by me (my
4499 Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of radiusclient), but it was
4500 contributed by a Radius user.
4502 PH/24 When doing a callout, the value of $domain wasn't set correctly when
4503 expanding the "port" option of the smtp transport.
4505 TK/04 MIME ACL: Fix buffer underrun that occurs when EOF condition is met
4506 while reading a MIME header. Thanks to Tom Hughes for a patch.
4508 PH/24 Include config.h inside local_scan.h so that configuration settings are
4511 PH/25 Make $smtp_command_argument available after all SMTP commands. This means
4512 that in an ACL for RCPT (for example), you can examine exactly what was
4515 PH/26 Exim was recognizing IPv6 addresses of the form [IPv6:....] in EHLO
4516 commands, but it was not correctly comparing the address with the actual
4517 client host address. Thus, it would show the EHLO address in Received:
4518 header lines when this was not necessary.
4520 PH/27 Added the % operator to ${eval:}.
4522 PH/28 Exim tries to create and chdir to its spool directory when it starts;
4523 it should be ignoring failures (because with -C, for example, it has lost
4524 privilege). It wasn't ignoring creation failures other than "already
4527 PH/29 Added "crypteq" to the list of supported features that Exim outputs when
4530 PH/30 Fixed (presumably very longstanding) bug in exim_dbmbuild: if it failed
4531 because an input line was too long, either on its own, or by virtue of
4532 too many continuations, the temporary file was not being removed, and the
4533 return code was incorrect.
4535 PH/31 Missing "BOOL" in function definition in filtertest.c.
4537 PH/32 Applied Sieve patches from the maintainer.
4539 TK/05 Domainkeys: Accomodate for a minor API change in libdomainkeys 0.67.
4541 PH/33 Added "verify = not_blind".
4543 PH/34 There are settings for CHOWN_COMMAND and MV_COMMAND that can be used in
4544 Local/Makefile (with some defaults set). These are used in built scripts
4545 such as exicyclog, but they have never been used in the exim_install
4546 script (though there are many overriding facilities there). I have
4547 arranged that the exim_install script now takes note of these two
4550 PH/35 Installed configuration files for Dragonfly.
4552 PH/36 When a locally submitted message by a trusted user did not contain a
4553 From: header, and the sender address was obtained from -f or from an SMTP
4554 MAIL command, and the trusted user did not use -F to supply a sender
4555 name, $originator_name was incorrectly used when constructing a From:
4556 header. Furthermore, $originator_name was used for submission mode
4557 messages from external hosts without From: headers in a similar way,
4558 which is clearly wrong.
4560 PH/37 Added control=suppress_local_fixups.
4562 PH/38 When log_selector = +received_sender was set, and the addition of the
4563 sender made the log line's construction buffer exactly full, or one byte
4564 less than full, an overflow happened when the terminating "\n" was
4567 PH/39 Added a new log selector, "unknown_in_list", which provokes a log entry
4568 when the result of a list match is failure because a DNS lookup failed.
4570 PH/40 RM_COMMAND is now used in the building process.
4572 PH/41 Added a "distclean" target to the top-level Makefile; it deletes all
4573 the "build-* directories that it finds.
4575 PH/42 (But a TF fix): In a domain list, Exim incorrectly matched @[] if the IP
4576 address in a domain literal was a prefix of an interface address.
4578 PH/43 (Again a TF fix): In the dnslookup router, do not apply widen_domains
4579 when verifying a sender address, unless rewrite_headers is false.
4581 PH/44 Wrote a long comment about why errors_to addresses are verified as
4582 recipients, not senders.
4584 TF/01 Add missing LIBS=-lm to OS/Makefile-OpenBSD which was overlooked when
4585 the ratelimit ACL was added.
4587 PH/45 Added $smtp_command for the full command (cf $smtp_command_argument).
4589 PH/46 Added extra information about PostgreSQL errors to the error string.
4591 PH/47 Added an interface to a fake DNS resolver for use by the new test suite,
4592 avoiding the need to install special zones in a real server. This is
4593 backwards compatible; if it can't find the fake resolver, it drops back.
4594 Thus, both old and new test suites can be run.
4596 TF/02 Added util/ratelimit.pl
4598 TF/03 Minor fix to the ratelimit code to improve its behaviour in case the
4599 clock is set back in time.
4601 TF/04 Fix the ratelimit support in exim_fixdb. Patch provided by Brian
4602 Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>.
4604 TF/05 The fix for PH/43 was not completely correct; widen_domains is always
4605 OK for addresses that are the result of redirections.
4607 PH/48 A number of further additions for the benefit of the new test suite,
4608 including a fake gethostbyname() that interfaces to the fake DNS resolver
4611 TF/06 The fix for widen_domains has also been applied to qualify_single and
4612 search_parents which are the other dnslookup options that can cause
4615 PH/49 Michael Haardt's randomized retrying, but as a separate retry parameter
4618 PH/50 Make never_users, trusted_users, admin_groups, trusted_groups expandable.
4620 TF/07 Exim produced the error message "an SRV record indicated no SMTP
4621 service" if it encountered an MX record with an empty target hostname.
4622 The message is now "an MX or SRV record indicated no SMTP service".
4624 TF/08 Change PH/13 introduced the possibility that verify=helo may defer,
4625 if the DNS of the sending site is misconfigured. This is quite a
4626 common situation. This change restores the behaviour of treating a
4627 helo verification defer as a failure.
4629 PH/51 If self=fail was set on a router, the bounce message did not include the
4630 actual error message.
4636 TF/01 Added support for Client SMTP Authorization. See NewStuff for details.
4638 PH/01 When a transport filter timed out in a pipe delivery, and the pipe
4639 command itself ended in error, the underlying message about the transport
4640 filter timeout was being overwritten with the pipe command error. Now the
4641 underlying error message should be appended to the second error message.
4643 TK/01 Fix poll() being unavailable on Mac OSX 10.2.
4645 PH/02 Reduce the amount of output that "make" produces by default. Full output
4646 can still be requested.
4648 PH/03 The warning log line about a condition test deferring for a "warn" verb
4649 was being output only once per connection, rather than after each
4650 occurrence (because it was using the same function as for successful
4651 "warn" verbs). This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
4653 TF/02 Two buglets in acl.c which caused Exim to read a few bytes of memory that
4654 it should not have, which might have caused a crash in the right
4655 circumstances, but probably never did.
4657 PH/04 Installed a modified version of Tony Finch's patch to make submission
4658 mode fix the return path as well as the Sender: header line, and to
4659 add a /name= option so that you can make the user's friendly name appear
4662 TF/03 Added the control = fakedefer ACL modifier.
4664 TF/04 Added the ratelimit ACL condition. See NewStuff for details. Thanks to
4665 Mark Lowes for thorough testing.
4667 TK/02 Rewrote SPF support to work with libspf2 versions >1.2.0.
4669 TK/03 Merged latest SRS patch from Miles Wilton.
4671 PH/05 There's a shambles in IRIX6 - it defines EX_OK in unistd.h which conflicts
4672 with the definition in sysexits.h (which is #included earlier).
4673 Fortunately, Exim does not actually use EX_OK. The code used to try to
4674 preserve the sysexits.h value, by assuming that macro definitions were
4675 scanned for macro replacements. I have been disabused of this notion,
4676 so now the code just undefines EX_OK before #including unistd.h.
4678 PH/06 There is a timeout for writing blocks of data, set by, e.g. data_timeout
4679 in the smtp transport. When a block could not be written in a single
4680 write() function, the timeout was being re-applied to each part-write.
4681 This seems wrong - if the receiver was accepting one byte at a time it
4682 would take for ever. The timeout is now adjusted when this happens. It
4683 doesn't have to be particularly precise.
4685 TK/04 Added simple SPF lookup method in EXPERIMENTAL_SPF. See NewStuff for
4686 details. Thanks to Chris Webb <chris@arachsys.com> for the patch!
4688 PH/07 Added "fullpostmaster" verify option, which does a check to <postmaster>
4689 without a domain if the check to <postmaster@domain> fails.
4691 SC/01 Eximstats: added -xls and the ability to specify output files
4692 (patch written by Frank Heydlauf).
4694 SC/02 Eximstats: use FileHandles for outputting results.
4696 SC/03 Eximstats: allow any combination of xls, txt, and html output.
4698 SC/04 Eximstats: fixed display of large numbers with -nvr option
4700 SC/05 Eximstats: fixed merging of reports with empty tables.
4702 SC/06 Eximstats: added the -include_original_destination flag
4704 SC/07 Eximstats: removed tabs and trailing whitespace.
4706 TK/05 Malware: Improve on aveserver error handling. Patch from Alex Miller.
4708 TK/06 MBOX spool code: Add real "From " MBOX separator line
4709 so the .eml file is really in mbox format (even though
4710 most programs do not really care). Patch from Alex Miller.
4712 TK/07 MBOX spool code: Add X-Envelope-From: and X-Envelope-To: headers.
4713 The latter is generated from $received_to and is only set if the
4714 message has one envelope recipient. SA can use these headers,
4715 obviously out-of-the-box. Patch from Alex Miller.
4717 PH/08 The ${def test on a variable was returning false if the variable's
4718 value was "0", contrary to what the specification has always said!
4719 The result should be true unless the variable is empty.
4721 PH/09 The syntax error of a character other than { following "${if
4722 def:variable_name" (after optional whitespace) was not being diagnosed.
4723 An expansion such as ${if def:sender_ident:{xxx}{yyy}} in which an
4724 accidental colon was present, for example, could give incorrect results.
4726 PH/10 Tidied the code in a number of places where the st_size field of a stat()
4727 result is used (not including appendfile, where other changes are about
4730 PH/11 Upgraded appendfile so that quotas larger than 2G are now supported.
4731 This involved changing a lot of size variables from int to off_t. It
4732 should work with maildirs and everything.
4734 TK/08 Apply fix provided by Michael Haardt to prevent deadlock in case of
4735 spamd dying while we are connected to it.
4737 TF/05 Fixed a ${extract error message typo reported by Jeremy Harris
4740 PH/12 Applied Alex Kiernan's patch for the API change for the error callback
4741 function for BDB 4.3.
4743 PH/13 Changed auto_thaw such that it does not apply to bounce messages.
4745 PH/14 Imported PCRE 6.0; this was more than just a trivial operation because
4746 the sources for PCRE have been re-arranged and more files are now
4749 PH/15 The code I had for printing potentially long long variables in PH/11
4750 above was not the best (it lost precision). The length of off_t variables
4751 is now inspected at build time, and an appropriate printing format (%ld
4752 or %lld) is chosen and #defined by OFF_T_FMT. We also define LONGLONG_T
4753 to be "long long int" or "long int". This is needed for the internal
4754 formatting function string_vformat().
4756 PH/16 Applied Matthew Newton's patch to exicyclog: "If log_file_path is set in
4757 the configuration file to be ":syslog", then the script "guesses" where
4758 the logs files are, rather than using the compiled in default. In our
4759 case the guess is not the same as the compiled default, so the script
4760 suddenly stopped working when I started to use syslog. The patch checks
4761 to see if log_file_path is "". If so, it attempts to read it from exim
4762 with no configuration file to get the compiled in version, before it
4763 falls back to the previous guessing code."
4765 TK/09 Added "prvs" and "prvscheck" expansion items. These help a lot with
4766 implementing BATV in an Exim configuration. See NewStuff for the gory
4769 PH/17 Applied Michael Haardt's patch for HP-UX, affecting only the os.h and
4770 Makefile that are specific to HP-UX.
4772 PH/18 If the "use_postmaster" option was set for a recipient callout together
4773 with the "random" option, the postmaster address was used as the MAIL
4774 FROM address for the random test, but not for the subsequent recipient
4775 test. It is now used for both.
4777 PH/19 Applied Michael Haardt's patch to update Sieve to RFC3028bis. "The
4778 patch removes a few documentation additions to RFC 3028, because the
4779 latest draft now contains them. It adds the new en;ascii-case comparator
4780 and a new error check for 8bit text in MIME parts. Comparator and
4781 require names are now matched exactly. I enabled the subaddress
4782 extension, but it is not well tested yet (read: it works for me)."
4784 PH/20 Added macros for time_t as for off_t (see PH/15 above) and used them to
4785 rework some of the code of TK/09 above to avoid the hardwired use of
4786 "%lld" and "long long". Replaced the call to snprintf() with a call to
4789 PH/21 Added some other messages to those in 4.51/PH/42, namely "All relevant MX
4790 records point to non-existent hosts", "retry timeout exceeded", and
4791 "retry time not reached for any host after a long failure period".
4793 PH/22 Fixed some oversights/typos causing bugs when Exim is compiled with
4794 experimental DomainKeys support:
4796 (1) The filter variables $n0-$n9 and $sn0-$sn9 were broken.
4797 (2) On an error such as an illegally used "control", the wrong name for
4798 the control was given.
4800 These problems did NOT occur unless DomainKeys support was compiled.
4802 PH/23 Added daemon_startup_retries and daemon_startup_sleep.
4804 PH/24 Added ${if match_ip condition.
4806 PH/25 Put debug statements on either side of calls to EXIM_DBOPEN() for hints
4807 databases so that it will be absolutely obvious if a crash occurs in the
4808 DB library. This is a regular occurrence (often caused by mis-matched
4811 PH/26 Insert a lot of missing (void) casts for functions such as chown(),
4812 chmod(), fcntl(), sscanf(), and other functions from stdio.h. These were
4813 picked up on a user's system that detects such things. There doesn't seem
4814 to be a gcc warning option for this - only an attribute that has to be
4815 put on the function's prototype. It seems that in Fedora Core 4 they have
4816 set this on a number of new functions. No doubt there will be more in due
4819 PH/27 If a dnslookup or manualroute router is set with verify=only, it need not
4820 specify a transport. However, if an address that was verified by such a
4821 router was the subject of a callout, Exim crashed because it tried to
4822 read the rcpt_include_affixes from the non-existent transport. Now it
4823 just assumes that the setting of that option is false. This bug was
4824 introduced by 4.51/PH/31.
4826 PH/28 Changed -d+all to exclude +memory, because that information is very
4827 rarely of interest, but it makes the output a lot bigger. People tend to
4828 do -d+all out of habit.
4830 PH/29 Removed support for the Linux-libc5 build, as it is obsolete and the
4831 code in os-type was giving problems when libc.so lives in lib64, like on
4834 PH/30 Exim's DNS code uses the original T_xxx names for DNS record times. These
4835 aren't the modern standard, and it seems that some systems' include files
4836 don't always have them. Exim was already checking for some of the newer
4837 ones like T_AAAA, and defining it itself. I've added checks for all the
4838 record types that Exim uses.
4840 PH/31 When using GnuTLS, if the parameters cache file did not exist, Exim was
4841 not automatically generating a new one, as it is supposed to. This
4842 prevented TLS from working. If the file did exist, but contained invalid
4843 data, a new version was generated, as expected. It was only the case of a
4844 non-existent file that was broken.
4846 TK/10 Domainkeys: Fix a bug in verification that caused a crash in conjunction
4847 with a change in libdomainkeys > 0.64.
4849 TK/11 Domainkeys: Change the logic how the "testing" policy flag is retrieved
4850 from DNS. If the selector record carries the flag, it now has
4851 precedence over the domain-wide flag.
4853 TK/12 Cleared some compiler warnings related to SPF, SRS and DK code.
4855 PH/32 In mua_wrapper mode, if an smtp transport configuration error (such as
4856 the use of a port name that isn't defined in /etc/services) occurred, the
4857 message was deferred as in a normal delivery, and thus remained on the
4858 spool, instead of being failed because of the mua_wrapper setting. This
4859 is now fixed, and I tidied up some of the mua_wrapper messages at the
4862 SC/08 Eximstats: whilst parsing the mainlog(s), store information about
4863 the messages in a hash of arrays rather than using individual hashes.
4864 This is a bit cleaner and results in dramatic memory savings, albeit
4865 at a slight CPU cost.
4867 SC/09 Eximstats: added the -show_rt<list> and the -show_dt<list> flags
4868 as requested by Marc Sherman.
4870 SC/10 Eximstats: added histograms for user specified patterns as requested
4873 SC/11 Eximstats: v1.43 - bugfix for pattern histograms with -h0 specified.
4875 PH/33 Patch from the Cygwin maintainer to add "b" to all occurences of
4876 fopen() in the content-scanning modules that did not already have it.
4882 TK/01 Added Yahoo DomainKeys support via libdomainkeys. See
4883 doc/experimental-spec.txt for details. (http://domainkeys.sf.net)
4885 TK/02 Fix ACL "control" statement not being available in MIME ACL.
4887 TK/03 Fix ACL "regex" condition not being available in MIME ACL.
4889 PH/01 Installed a patch from the Sieve maintainer that allows -bf to be used
4890 to test Sieve filters that use "vacation".
4892 PH/02 Installed a slightly modified version of Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos' patch
4893 that changes the way the GnuTLS parameters are stored in the cache file.
4894 The new format can be generated externally. For backward compatibility,
4895 if the data in the cache doesn't make sense, Exim assumes it has read an
4896 old-format file, and it generates new data and writes a new file. This
4897 means that you can't go back to an older release without removing the
4900 PH/03 A redirect router that has both "unseen" and "one_time" set does not
4901 work if there are any delivery delays because "one_time" forces the
4902 parent to be marked "delivered", so its unseen clone is never tried
4903 again. For this reason, Exim now forbids the simultaneous setting of
4906 PH/04 Change 4.11/85 fixed an obscure bug concerned with addresses that are
4907 redirected to themselves ("homonym" addresses). Read the long ChangeLog
4908 entry if you want to know the details. The fix, however, neglected to
4909 consider the case when local delivery batching is involved. The test for
4910 "previously delivered" was not happening when checking to see if an
4911 address could be batched with a previous (undelivered) one; under
4912 certain circumstances this could lead to multiple deliveries to the same
4915 PH/05 Renamed the macro SOCKLEN_T as EXIM_SOCKLEN_T because AIX uses SOCKLEN_T
4916 in its include files, and this causes problems building Exim.
4918 PH/06 A number of "verify =" ACL conditions have no options (e.g. verify =
4919 header_syntax) but Exim was just ignoring anything given after a slash.
4920 In particular, this caused confusion with an attempt to use "verify =
4921 reverse_host_lookup/defer_ok". An error is now given when options are
4922 supplied for verify items that do not have them. (Maybe reverse_host_
4923 lookup should have a defer_ok option, but that's a different point.)
4925 PH/07 Increase the size of the buffer for incoming SMTP commands from 512 (as
4926 defined by RFC 821) to 2048, because there were problems with some AUTH
4927 commands, and RFC 1869 says the size should be increased for extended
4928 SMTP commands that take arguments.
4930 PH/08 Added ${dlfunc dynamically loaded function for expansion (code from Tony
4933 PH/09 Previously, an attempt to use ${perl when it wasn't compiled gave an
4934 "unknown" error; now it says that the functionality isn't in the binary.
4936 PH/10 Added a nasty fudge to try to recognize and flatten LDAP passwords in
4937 an address' error message when a string expansion fails (syntax or
4938 whatever). Otherwise the password may appear in the log. Following change
4939 PH/42 below, there is no longer a chance of it appearing in a bounce
4942 PH/11 Installed exipick version 20050225.0 from John Jetmore.
4944 PH/12 If the last host in a fallback_hosts list was multihomed, only the first
4945 of its addresses was ever tried. (Bugzilla bug #2.)
4947 PH/13 If "headers_add" in a transport didn't end in a newline, Exim printed
4948 the result incorrectly in the debug output. (It correctly added a newline
4949 to what was transported.)
4951 TF/01 Added $received_time.
4953 PH/14 Modified the default configuration to add an acl_smtp_data ACL, with
4954 commented out examples of how to interface to a virus scanner and to
4955 SpamAssassin. Also added commented examples of av_scanner and
4956 spamd_address settings.
4958 PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
4959 and controls are allowed in which ACLs. There were a couple of minor
4960 errors. Some of the entries in the conditions table (which is a table of
4961 where they are NOT allowed) were getting very unwieldy; rewrote them as a
4962 negation of where the condition IS allowed.
4964 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
4966 PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
4967 header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
4968 value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
4969 API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
4970 radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
4972 PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
4973 files or directories, for OpenSSL.
4975 PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
4976 file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
4977 ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
4978 the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
4979 fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
4980 for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
4981 run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
4984 PH/20 When checking for unexpected SMTP input at connect time (before writing
4985 the banner), Exim was not dealing correctly with a non-positive return
4986 from the read() function. If the client had disconnected by this time,
4987 the result was a log entry for a synchronization error with an empty
4988 string after "input=" when read() returned zero. If read() returned -1
4989 (an event I could not check), uninitialized data bytes were printed.
4990 There were reports of junk text (parts of files, etc) appearing after
4993 PH/21 Added acl_not_smtp_mime to allow for MIME scanning for non-SMTP messages.
4995 PH/22 Added support for macro redefinition, and (re)definition in between
4996 driver and ACL definitions.
4998 PH/23 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was expanding server_hostname, but then
4999 forgetting to use the resulting value; it was using the unexpanded value.
5001 PH/24 The cyrus_sasl authenticator was advertising mechanisms for which it
5002 hadn't been configured. The fix is from Juergen Kreileder, who
5003 understands it better than I do:
5005 "Here's what I see happening with three configured cyrus_sasl
5006 authenticators configured (plain, login, cram-md5):
5008 On startup auth_cyrus_sasl_init() gets called for each of these.
5009 This means three calls to sasl_listmech() without a specified mech_list.
5010 => SASL tests which mechs of all available mechs actually work
5011 => three warnings about OTP not working
5012 => the returned list contains: plain, login, cram-md5, digest-md5, ...
5014 With the patch, sasl_listmech() also gets called three times. But now
5015 SASL's mech_list option is set to the server_mech specified in the the
5016 authenticator. Or in other words, the answer from sasl_listmech()
5017 gets limited to just the mech you're testing for (which is different
5019 => the return list contains just 'plain' or 'login', 'cram-md5' or
5020 nothing depending on the value of ob->server_mech.
5022 I've just tested the patch: Authentication still works fine,
5023 unavailable mechs specified in the exim configuration are still
5024 caught, and the auth.log warnings about OTP are gone."
5026 PH/25 When debugging is enabled, the contents of the command line are added
5027 to the debugging output, even when log_selector=+arguments is not
5030 PH/26 Change scripts/os-type so that when "uname -s" returns just "GNU", the
5031 answer is "GNU", and only if the return is "GNU/something" is the answer
5034 PH/27 $acl_verify_message is now set immediately after the failure of a
5035 verification in an ACL, and so is available in subsequent modifiers. In
5036 particular, the message can be preserved by coding like this:
5038 warn !verify = sender
5039 set acl_m0 = $acl_verify_message
5041 Previously, $acl_verify_message was set only while expanding "message"
5042 and "log_message" when a very denied access.
5044 PH/28 Modified OS/os.c-Linux with
5046 -#ifndef OS_LOAD_AVERAGE
5047 +#if !defined(OS_LOAD_AVERAGE) && defined(__linux__)
5049 to make Exim compile on kfreebsd-gnu. (I'm totally confused about the
5050 nomenclature these days.)
5052 PH/29 Installed patch from the Sieve maintainer that adds the options
5053 sieve_useraddress and sieve_subaddress to the redirect router.
5055 PH/30 In these circumstances:
5056 . Two addresses routed to the same list of hosts;
5057 . First host does not offer TLS;
5058 . First host accepts first address;
5059 . First host gives temporary error to second address;
5060 . Second host offers TLS and a TLS session is established;
5061 . Second host accepts second address.
5062 Exim incorrectly logged both deliveries with the TLS parameters (cipher
5063 and peerdn, if requested) that were in fact used only for the second
5066 PH/31 When doing a callout as part of verifying an address, Exim was not paying
5067 attention to any local part prefix or suffix that was matched by the
5068 router that accepted the address. It now behaves in the same way as it
5069 does for delivery: the affixes are removed from the local part unless
5070 rcpt_include_affixes is set on the transport.
5072 PH/32 Add the sender address, as F=<...>, to the log line when logging a
5073 timeout during the DATA phase of an incoming message.
5075 PH/33 Sieve envelope tests were broken for match types other than :is. I have
5076 applied a patch sanctioned by the Sieve maintainer.
5078 PH/34 Change 4.50/80 broke Exim in that it could no longer handle cases where
5079 the uid or gid is negative. A case of a negative gid caused this to be
5080 noticed. The fix allows for either to be negative.
5082 PH/35 ACL_WHERE_MIME is now declared unconditionally, to avoid too much code
5083 clutter, but the tables that are indexed by ACL_WHERE_xxx values had been
5086 PH/36 The change PH/12 above was broken. Fixed it.
5088 PH/37 Exim used to check for duplicate addresses in the middle of routing, on
5089 the grounds that routing the same address twice would always produce the
5090 same answer. This might have been true once, but it is certainly no
5091 longer true now. Routing a child address may depend on the previous
5092 routing that produced that child. Some complicated redirection strategies
5093 went wrong when messages had multiple recipients, and made Exim's
5094 behaviour dependent on the order in which the addresses were given.
5096 I have moved the duplicate checking until after the routing is complete.
5097 Exim scans the addresses that are assigned to local and remote
5098 transports, and removes any duplicates. This means that more work will be
5099 done, as duplicates will always all be routed, but duplicates are
5100 presumably rare, so I don't expect this is of any significance.
5102 For deliveries to pipes, files, and autoreplies, the duplicate checking
5103 still happens during the routing process, since they are not going to be
5106 PH/38 Installed a patch from Ian Freislich, with the agreement of Tom Kistner.
5107 It corrects a timeout issue with spamd. This is Ian's comment: "The
5108 background is that sometimes spamd either never reads data from a
5109 connection it has accepted, or it never writes response data. The exiscan
5110 spam.[ch] uses a 3600 second timeout on spamd socket reads, further, it
5111 blindly assumes that writes won't block so it may never time out."
5113 PH/39 Allow G after quota size as well as K and M.
5115 PH/40 The value set for $authenticated_id in an authenticator may not contain
5116 binary zeroes or newlines because the value is written to log lines and
5117 to spool files. There was no check on this. Now the value is run through
5118 the string_printing() function so that such characters are converted to
5119 printable escape sequences.
5121 PH/41 $message_linecount is a new variable that contains the total number of
5122 lines in the message. Compare $body_linecount, which is the count for the
5125 PH/42 Exim no longer gives details of delivery errors for specific addresses in
5126 bounce and delay warning messages, except in certain special cases, which
5129 (a) An SMTP error message from a remote host;
5130 (b) A message specified in a :fail: redirection;
5131 (c) A message specified in a "fail" command in a system filter;
5132 (d) A message specified in a FAIL return from the queryprogram router;
5133 (e) A message specified by the cannot_route_message router option.
5135 In these cases only, Exim does include the error details in bounce and
5136 warning messages. There are also a few cases where bland messages such
5137 as "unrouteable address" or "local delivery error" are given.
5139 PH/43 $value is now also set for the "else" part of a ${run expansion.
5141 PH/44 Applied patch from the Sieve maintainer: "The vacation draft is still
5142 being worked on, but at least Exim now implements the latest version to
5145 PH/45 In a pipe transport, although a timeout while waiting for the pipe
5146 process to complete was treated as a delivery failure, a timeout while
5147 writing the message to the pipe was logged, but erroneously treated as a
5148 successful delivery. Such timeouts include transport filter timeouts. For
5149 consistency with the overall process timeout, these timeouts are now
5150 treated as errors, giving rise to delivery failures by default. However,
5151 there is now a new Boolean option for the pipe transport called
5152 timeout_defer, which, if set TRUE, converts the failures into defers for
5153 both kinds of timeout. A transport filter timeout is now identified in
5156 PH/46 The "scripts/Configure-config.h" script calls "make" at one point. On
5157 systems where "make" and "gmake" are different, calling "gmake" at top
5158 level broke things. I've arranged for the value of $(MAKE) to be passed
5159 from the Makefile to this script so that it can call the same version of
5163 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
5164 ----------------------------------------
5166 Exim 4.50 was meant to be the next release after 4.43. It contains a lot of
5167 changes of various kinds. As a consequence, a big documentation update was
5168 needed. This delayed the release for rather longer than seemed good, especially
5169 in the light of a couple of (minor) security issues. Therefore, the changes
5170 that fixed bugs were backported into 4.43, to create a 4.44 maintenance
5171 release. So 4.44 and 4.50 are in effect two different branches that both start
5174 I have left the 4.50 change log unchanged; it contains all the changes since
5175 4.43. The change log for 4.44 is below; many of its items are identical to
5176 those for 4.50. This seems to be the most sensible way to preserve the
5177 historical information.
5183 1. Minor wording change to the doc/README.SIEVE file.
5185 2. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug: if quota_filecount was set, the
5186 computation of the current number of files was incorrect.
5188 3. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5189 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5192 4. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5193 filter fails to execute.
5195 5. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5196 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5197 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5198 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5199 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5201 6. Added CONFIGURE_GROUP build-time option.
5203 7. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5204 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5205 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5206 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5208 8. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5209 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5210 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5211 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5212 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5214 9. Added the /retain_sender option to "control=submission".
5216 10. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5218 11. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5219 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5220 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5221 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5223 12. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5224 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5225 sender verification.
5227 13. The value of address_data from a sender verification is now available in
5228 $sender_address_data in subsequent conditions in the ACL statement.
5230 14. Added forbid_sieve_filter and forbid_exim_filter to the redirect router.
5232 15. Added a new option "connect=<time>" to callout options, to set a different
5235 16. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5236 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5238 17. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5239 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5241 18. New variables $sender_verify_failure and $recipient_verify_failure contain
5242 information about exactly what failed.
5244 19. Added -dd to debug only the daemon process.
5246 20. Incorporated Michael Haardt's patch to ldap.c for improving the way it
5247 handles timeouts, both on the server side and network timeouts. Renamed the
5248 CONNECT parameter as NETTIMEOUT (but kept the old name for compatibility).
5250 21. The rare case of EHLO->STARTTLS->HELO was setting the protocol to "smtp".
5251 It is now set to "smtps".
5253 22. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5254 ignore_target_hosts.
5256 23. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5257 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5258 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5259 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5262 24. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5263 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5264 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5266 25. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5267 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5268 wake it up if nothing else does.
5270 26. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5271 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5272 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5275 27. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5276 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5278 28. Installed the latest version of exipick from John Jetmore.
5280 29. In an address list, if the pattern was not a regular expression, an empty
5281 subject address (from a bounce message) matched only if the pattern was an
5282 empty string. Non-empty patterns were not even tested. This was the wrong
5283 because it is perfectly reasonable to use an empty address as part of a
5284 database query. An empty address is now tested by patterns that are
5285 lookups. However, all the other forms of pattern expect the subject to
5286 contain a local part and a domain, and therefore, for them, an empty
5287 address still always fails if the pattern is not itself empty.
5289 30. Exim went into a mad DNS loop when attempting to do a callout where the
5290 host was specified on an smtp transport, and looking it up yielded more
5291 than one IP address.
5293 31. Re-factored the code for checking spool and log partition space into a
5294 function that finds that data and another that does the check. The former
5295 is then used to implement four new variables: $spool_space, $log_space,
5296 $spool_inodes, and $log_inodes.
5298 32. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5299 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5300 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5301 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5302 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5305 33. It is now permitted to omit both strings after an "if" condition; if the
5306 condition is true, the result is "true". As before, when the second string
5307 is omitted, a false condition yields an empty string. This makes it less
5308 cumbersome to write custom ACL and router conditions.
5310 34. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5311 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5314 35. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5315 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5316 $sender_host_address.
5318 36. The table in the code that translates DNS record types into text (T_A to
5319 "A" for instance) was missing entries for NS and CNAME. It is just possible
5320 that this could have caused confusion if both these types were looked up
5321 for the same domain, because the text type is used as part of Exim's
5322 per-process caching. But the chance of anyone hitting this buglet seems
5325 37. The dnsdb lookup has been extended in a number of ways.
5327 (1) There is a new type, "zns", which walks up the domain tree until it
5328 finds some nameserver records. It should be used with care.
5330 (2) There is a new type, "mxh", which is like "mx" except that it returns
5331 just the host names, not the priorities.
5333 (3) It is now possible to give a list of domains (or IP addresses) to be
5334 looked up. The behaviour when one of the lookups defers can be
5335 controlled by a keyword.
5337 (4) It is now possible to specify the separator character for use when
5338 multiple records are returned.
5340 38. The dnslists ACL condition has been extended: it is now possible to supply
5341 a list of IP addresses and/or domains to be looked up in a particular DNS
5344 39. Added log_selector=+queue_time_overall.
5346 40. When running the queue in the test harness, wait just a tad after forking a
5347 delivery process, to get repeatability of debugging output.
5349 41. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5350 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5351 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5353 42. Allow both -bf and -bF in the same test run.
5355 43. Did the same fix as 41 above for OpenSSL, which had the same infelicity.
5357 44. The "Exiscan patch" is now merged into the mainline Exim source.
5359 45. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5360 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5361 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5362 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5363 because the tests only now provoked it.
5365 46. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5366 (this can affect the format of dates).
5368 47. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5369 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5370 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5371 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5373 48. Steve fixed some bugs in eximstats.
5375 49. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5376 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5377 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5378 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5380 50. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5381 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5382 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5384 51. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5387 52. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5388 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5389 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5390 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5391 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5392 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5395 53. Now that there can be additional text after "Completed" in log lines (if
5396 the queue_time_overall log selector is set), a one-byte patch to exigrep
5397 was needed to allow it to recognize "Completed" as not the last thing in
5400 54. The LDAP lookup was not handling a return of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE. A
5401 patch that reportedly fixes this has been added. I am not expert enough to
5402 create a test for it. This is what the patch creator wrote:
5404 "I found a little strange behaviour of ldap code when working with
5405 Windows 2003 AD Domain, where users was placed in more than one
5406 Organization Units. When I tried to give exim partial DN, the exit code
5407 of ldap_search was unknown to exim because of LDAP_RES_SEARCH_REFERENCE.
5408 But simultaneously result of request was absolutely normal ldap result,
5409 so I produce this patch..."
5411 Later: it seems that not all versions of LDAP support LDAP_RES_SEARCH_
5412 REFERENCE, so I have modified the code to exclude the patch when that macro
5415 55. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5416 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5417 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5418 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5421 56. Improve error message when ldap_search() fails in OpenLDAP or Solaris LDAP.
5423 57. Double the size of the debug message buffer (to 2048) so that more of very
5424 long debug lines gets shown.
5426 58. The exicyclog utility now does better if the number of log files to keep
5427 exceeds 99. In this case, it numbers them 001, 002 ... instead of 01, 02...
5429 59. Two changes related to the smtp_active_hostname option:
5431 (1) $smtp_active_hostname is now available as a variable.
5432 (2) The default for smtp_banner uses $smtp_active_hostname instead
5433 of $primary_hostname.
5435 60. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5436 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5437 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5438 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5439 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5440 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5441 by change 4.50/55 above.
5443 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5444 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5445 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5446 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5447 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5448 running as the user.
5451 61. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5452 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5453 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5456 62. Configuration update for GNU/Hurd and variations. Updated Makefile-GNU and
5457 os.h-GNU, and added configuration files for GNUkFreeBSD and GNUkNetBSD.
5459 63. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5460 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5461 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5462 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5463 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5465 64. A call to exiwhat cut short delays set up by "delay" modifiers in ACLs.
5466 This has been fixed.
5468 65. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5469 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5470 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5471 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5474 66. Added hosts_max_try_hardlimit to the smtp transport, default 50.
5476 67. The string_is_ip_address() function returns 0, 4, or 6, for "no an IP
5477 address", "IPv4 address", and "IPv6 address", respectively. Some calls of
5478 the function were treating the return as a boolean value, which happened to
5479 work because 0=false and not-0=true, but is not correct code.
5481 68. The host_aton() function was not handling scoped IPv6 addresses (those
5482 with, for example, "%eth0" on the end) correctly.
5484 69. Fixed some compiler warnings in acl.c for the bitmaps specified with
5485 negated items (that is, ~something) in unsigned ints. Some compilers
5486 apparently mutter when there is no cast.
5488 70. If an address verification called from an ACL failed, and did not produce a
5489 user-specific message (i.e. there was only a "system" message), nothing was
5490 put in $acl_verify_message. In this situation, it now puts the system
5493 71. Change 4.23/11 added synchronization checking at the start of an SMTP
5494 session; change 4.31/43 added the unwanted input to the log line - except
5495 that it did not do this in the start of session case. It now does.
5497 72. After a timeout in a callout SMTP session, Exim still sent a QUIT command.
5498 This is wrong and can cause the other end to generate a synchronization
5499 error if it is another Exim or anything else that does the synchronization
5500 check. A QUIT command is no longer sent after a timeout.
5502 73. $host_lookup_deferred has been added, to make it easier to detect DEFERs
5503 during host lookups.
5505 74. The defer_ok option of callout verification was not working if it was used
5506 when verifying addresses in header lines, that is, for this case:
5508 verify = header_sender/callout=defer_ok
5510 75. A backgrounded daemon closed stdin/stdout/stderr on entry; this meant that
5511 those file descriptors could be used for SMTP connections. If anything
5512 wrote to stderr (the example that came up was "warn" in embedded Perl), it
5513 could be sent to the SMTP client, causing chaos. The daemon now opens
5514 stdin, stdout, and stderr to /dev/null when it puts itself into the
5517 76. Arrange for output from Perl's "warn" command to be written to Exim's main
5518 log by default. The user can override this with suitable Perl magic.
5520 77. The use of log_message on a "discard" ACL verb, which is supposed to add to
5521 the log message when discard triggers, was not working for the DATA ACL or
5522 for the non-SMTP ACL.
5524 78. Error message wording change in sieve.c.
5526 79. If smtp_accept_max_per_host was set, the number of connections could be
5527 restricted to fewer than expected, because the daemon was trying to set up
5528 a new connection before checking whether the processes handling previous
5529 connections had finished. The check for completed processes is now done
5530 earlier. On busy systems, this bug wouldn't be noticed because something
5531 else would have woken the daemon, and it would have reaped the completed
5534 80. If a message was submitted locally by a user whose login name contained one
5535 or more spaces (ugh!), the spool file that Exim wrote was not re-readable.
5536 It caused a spool format error. I have fixed the spool reading code. A
5537 related problem was that the "from" clause in the Received: line became
5538 illegal because of the space(s). It is now covered by ${quote_local_part.
5540 81. Included the latest eximstats from Steve (adds average sizes to HTML Top
5543 82. Updated OS/Makefile-AIX as per message from Mike Meredith.
5545 83. Patch from Sieve maintainer to fix unterminated string problem in
5546 "vacation" handling.
5548 84. Some minor changes to the Linux configuration files to help with other
5549 OS variants using glibc.
5551 85. One more patch for Sieve to update vacation handling to latest spec.
5554 ----------------------------------------------------
5555 See the note above about the 4.44 and 4.50 releases.
5556 ----------------------------------------------------
5562 1. Change 4.43/35 introduced a bug that caused file counts to be
5563 incorrectly computed when quota_filecount was set in an appendfile
5566 2. Closing a stable door: arrange to panic-die if setitimer() ever fails. The
5567 bug fixed in 4.43/37 would have been diagnosed quickly if this had been in
5570 3. Give more explanation in the error message when the command for a transport
5571 filter fails to execute.
5573 4. There are several places where Exim runs a non-Exim command in a
5574 subprocess. The SIGUSR1 signal should be disabled for these processes. This
5575 was being done only for the command run by the queryprogram router. It is
5576 now done for all such subprocesses. The other cases are: ${run, transport
5577 filters, and the commands run by the lmtp and pipe transports.
5579 5. Some older OS have a limit of 256 on the maximum number of file
5580 descriptors. Exim was using setrlimit() to set 1000 as a large value
5581 unlikely to be exceeded. Change 4.43/17 caused a lot of logging on these
5582 systems. I've change it so that if it can't get 1000, it tries for 256.
5584 6. "control=submission" was allowed, but had no effect, in a DATA ACL. This
5585 was an oversight, and furthermore, ever since the addition of extra
5586 controls (e.g. 4.43/32), the checks on when to allow different forms of
5587 "control" were broken. There should now be diagnostics for all cases when a
5588 control that does not make sense is encountered.
5590 7. $recipients is now available in the predata ACL (oversight).
5592 8. Tidy the search cache before the fork to do a delivery from a message
5593 received from the command line. Otherwise the child will trigger a lookup
5594 failure and thereby defer the delivery if it tries to use (for example) a
5595 cached ldap connection that the parent has called unbind on.
5597 9. If verify=recipient was followed by verify=sender in a RCPT ACL, the value
5598 of $address_data from the recipient verification was clobbered by the
5599 sender verification.
5601 10. If FIXED_NEVER_USERS was defined, but empty, Exim was assuming the uid 0
5602 was its contents. (It was OK if the option was not defined at all.)
5604 11. A "Completed" log line is now written for messages that are removed from
5605 the spool by the -Mrm option.
5607 12. $host_address is now set to the target address during the checking of
5608 ignore_target_hosts.
5610 13. When checking ignore_target_hosts for an ipliteral router, no host name was
5611 being passed; this would have caused $sender_host_name to have been used if
5612 matching the list had actually called for a host name (not very likely,
5613 since this list is usually IP addresses). A host name is now passed as
5616 14. Changed the calls that set up the SIGCHLD handler in the daemon to use the
5617 code that specifies a non-restarting handler (typically sigaction() in
5618 modern systems) in an attempt to fix a rare and obscure crash bug.
5620 15. Narrowed the window for a race in the daemon that could cause it to ignore
5621 SIGCHLD signals. This is not a major problem, because they are used only to
5622 wake it up if nothing else does.
5624 16. A malformed maildirsize file could cause Exim to calculate negative values
5625 for the mailbox size or file count. Odd effects could occur as a result.
5626 The maildirsize information is now recalculated if the size or filecount
5629 17. Added HAVE_SYS_STATVFS_H to the os.h file for Linux, as it has had this
5630 support for a long time. Removed HAVE_SYS_VFS_H.
5632 18. Updated exipick to current release from John Jetmore.
5634 19. Allow an empty sender to be matched against a lookup in an address list.
5635 Previously the only cases considered were a regular expression, or an
5638 20. Exim went into a mad DNS lookup loop when doing a callout where the
5639 host was specified on the transport, if the DNS lookup yielded more than
5642 21. The RFC2047 encoding function was originally intended for short strings
5643 such as real names; it was not keeping to the 75-character limit for
5644 encoded words that the RFC imposes. It now respects the limit, and
5645 generates multiple encoded words if necessary. To be on the safe side, I
5646 have increased the buffer size for the ${rfc2047: expansion operator from
5649 22. Failure to deliver a bounce message always caused it to be frozen, even if
5650 there was an errors_to setting on the router. The errors_to setting is now
5653 23. If an IPv6 address is given for -bh or -bhc, it is now converted to the
5654 canonical form (fully expanded) before being placed in
5655 $sender_host_address.
5657 24. Updated eximstats to version 1.33
5659 25. Include certificate and key file names in error message when GnuTLS fails
5660 to set them up, because the GnuTLS error message doesn't include the name
5661 of the failing file when there is a problem reading it.
5663 26. Expand error message when OpenSSL has problems setting up cert/key files.
5666 27. Reset the locale to "C" after calling embedded Perl, in case it was changed
5667 (this can affect the format of dates).
5669 28. exim_tidydb, when checking for the continued existence of a message for
5670 which it has found a message-specific retry record, was not finding
5671 messages that were in split spool directories. Consequently, it was
5672 deleting retry records that should have stayed in existence.
5674 29. eximstats updated to version 1.35
5675 1.34 - allow eximstats to parse syslog lines as well as mainlog lines
5676 1.35 - bugfix such that pie charts by volume are generated correctly
5678 30. The SPA authentication driver was not abandoning authentication and moving
5679 on to the next authenticator when an expansion was forced to fail,
5680 contradicting the general specification for all authenticators. Instead it
5681 was generating a temporary error. It now behaves as specified.
5683 31. The default ordering of permitted cipher suites for GnuTLS was pessimal
5684 (the order specifies the preference for clients). The order is now AES256,
5685 AES128, 3DES, ARCFOUR128.
5687 31. Small patch to Sieve code - explicitly set From: when generating an
5690 32. Exim crashed if a remote delivery caused a very long error message to be
5691 recorded - for instance if somebody sent an entire SpamAssassin report back
5692 as a large number of 550 error lines. This bug was coincidentally fixed by
5693 increasing the size of one of Exim's internal buffers (big_buffer) that
5694 happened as part of the Exiscan merge. However, to be on the safe side, I
5695 have made the code more robust (and fixed the comments that describe what
5698 33. Some experimental protocols are using DNS PTR records for new purposes. The
5699 keys for these records are domain names, not reversed IP addresses. The
5700 dnsdb PTR lookup now tests whether its key is an IP address. If not, it
5701 leaves it alone. Component reversal etc. now happens only for IP addresses.
5704 34. The host_aton() function is supposed to be passed a string that is known
5705 to be a valid IP address. However, in the case of IPv6 addresses, it was
5706 not checking this. This is a hostage to fortune. Exim now panics and dies
5707 if the condition is not met. A case was found where this could be provoked
5708 from a dnsdb PTR lookup with an IPv6 address that had more than 8
5709 components; fortuitously, this particular loophole had already been fixed
5710 by change 4.50/55 or 4.44/33 above.
5712 If there are any other similar loopholes, the new check in host_aton()
5713 itself should stop them being exploited. The report I received stated that
5714 data on the command line could provoke the exploit when Exim was running as
5715 exim, but did not say which command line option was involved. All I could
5716 find was the use of -be with a bad dnsdb PTR lookup, and in that case it is
5717 running as the user.
5720 35. There was a buffer overflow vulnerability in the SPA authentication code
5721 (which came originally from the Samba project). I have added a test to the
5722 spa_base64_to_bits() function which I hope fixes it.
5725 36. The daemon start-up calls getloadavg() while still root for those OS that
5726 need the first call to be done as root, but it missed one case: when
5727 deliver_queue_load_max is set with deliver_drop_privilege. This is
5728 necessary for the benefit of the queue runner, because there is no re-exec
5729 when deliver_drop_privilege is set.
5731 37. Caching of lookup data for "hosts =" ACL conditions, when a named host list
5732 was in use, was not putting the data itself into the right store pool;
5733 consequently, it could be overwritten for a subsequent message in the same
5734 SMTP connection. (Fix 4.40/11 dealt with the non-cache case, but overlooked
5737 38. Sometimes the final signoff response after QUIT could fail to get
5738 transmitted in the non-TLS case. Testing !tls_active instead of tls_active
5739 < 0 before doing a fflush(). This bug looks as though it goes back to the
5740 introduction of TLS in release 3.20, but "sometimes" must have been rare
5741 because the tests only now provoked it.
5747 1. Fixed a longstanding but relatively impotent bug: a long time ago, before
5748 PIPELINING, the function smtp_write_command() used to return TRUE or FALSE.
5749 Now it returns an integer. A number of calls were still expecting a T/F
5750 return. Fortuitously, in all cases, the tests worked in OK situations,
5751 which is the norm. However, things would have gone wrong on any write
5752 failures on the smtp file descriptor. This function is used when sending
5753 messages over SMTP and also when doing verify callouts.
5755 2. When Exim is called to do synchronous delivery of a locally submitted
5756 message (the -odf or -odi options), it no longer closes stderr before doing
5759 3. Implemented the mua_wrapper option.
5761 4. Implemented mx_fail_domains and srv_fail_domains for the dnslookup router.
5763 5. Implemented the functions header_remove(), header_testname(),
5764 header_add_at_position(), and receive_remove_recipient(), and exported them
5767 6. If an ACL "warn" statement specified the addition of headers, Exim already
5768 inserted X-ACL-Warn: at the start if there was no header name. However, it
5769 was not making this test for the second and subsequent header lines if
5770 there were newlines in the string. This meant that an invalid header could
5771 be inserted if Exim was badly configured.
5773 7. Allow an ACL "warn" statement to add header lines at the start or after all
5774 the Received: headers, as well as at the end.
5776 8. Added the rcpt_4xx retry error code.
5778 9. Added postmaster_mailfrom=xxx to callout verification option.
5780 10. Added mailfrom=xxxx to the callout verification option, for verify=
5783 11. ${substr_1_:xxxx} and ${substr__3:xxxx} are now diagnosed as syntax errors
5784 (they previously behaved as ${substr_1_0:xxxx} and ${substr:_0_3:xxxx}).
5786 12. Inserted some casts to stop certain compilers warning when using pointer
5787 differences as field lengths or precisions in printf-type calls (mostly
5788 affecting debugging statements).
5790 13. Added optional readline() support for -be (dynamically loaded).
5792 14. Obscure bug fix: if a message error (e.g. 4xx to MAIL) happened within the
5793 same clock tick as a message's arrival, so that its received time was the
5794 same as the "first fail" time on the retry record, and that message
5795 remained on the queue past the ultimate address timeout, every queue runner
5796 would try a delivery (because it was past the ultimate address timeout) but
5797 after another failure, the ultimate address timeout, which should have then
5798 bounced the address, did not kick in. This was a "< instead of <=" error;
5799 in most cases the first failure would have been in the next clock tick
5800 after the received time, and all would be well.
5802 15. The special items beginning with @ in domain lists (e.g. @mx_any) were not
5803 being recognized when the domain list was tested by the match_domain
5804 condition in an expansion string.
5806 16. Added the ${str2b64: operator.
5808 17. Exim was always calling setrlimit() to set a large limit for the number of
5809 processes, without checking whether the existing limit was already
5810 adequate. (It did check for the limit on file descriptors.) Furthermore,
5811 errors from getrlimit() and setrlimit() were being ignored. Now they are
5812 logged to the main and panic logs, but Exim does carry on, to try to do its
5813 job under whatever limits there are.
5815 18. Imported PCRE 5.0.
5817 19. Trivial typo in log message " temporarily refused connection" (the leading
5820 20. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set and an address was
5821 redirected to /dev/null, the delivery process crashed because it assumed
5822 that a return path would always be set for a "successful" delivery. In this
5823 case, the whole delivery is bypassed as an optimization, and therefore no
5826 21. Internal re-arrangement: the function for sending a challenge and reading
5827 a response while authentication was assuming a zero-terminated challenge
5828 string. It's now changed to take a pointer and a length, to allow for
5829 binary data in such strings.
5831 22. Added the cyrus_sasl authenticator (code supplied by MBM).
5833 23. Exim was not respecting finduser_retries when seeking the login of the
5834 uid under which it was called; it was always trying 10 times. (The default
5835 setting of finduser_retries is zero.) Also, it was sleeping after the final
5836 failure, which is pointless.
5838 24. Implemented tls_on_connect_ports.
5840 25. Implemented acl_smtp_predata.
5842 26. If the domain in control=submission is set empty, Exim assumes that the
5843 authenticated id is a complete email address when it generates From: or
5844 Sender: header lines.
5846 27. Added "#define SOCKLEN_T int" to OS/os.h-SCO and OS/os.h-SCO_SV. Also added
5847 definitions to OS/Makefile-SCO and OS/Makefile-SCO_SV that put basename,
5848 chown and chgrp in /bin and hostname in /usr/bin.
5850 28. Exim was keeping the "process log" file open after each use, just as it
5851 does for the main log. This opens the possibility of it remaining open for
5852 long periods when the USR1 signal hits a daemon. Occasional processlog
5853 errors were reported, that could have been caused by this. Anyway, it seems
5854 much more sensible not to leave this file open at all, so that is what now
5857 29. The long-running daemon process does not normally write to the log once it
5858 has entered its main loop, and it closes the log before doing so. This is
5859 so that log files can straightforwardly be renamed and moved. However,
5860 there are a couple of unusual error situations where the daemon does write
5861 log entries, and I had neglected to close the log afterwards.
5863 30. The text of an SMTP error response that was received during a remote
5864 delivery was being truncated at 512 bytes. This is too short for some of
5865 the long messages that one sometimes sees. I've increased the limit to
5868 31. It is now possible to make retry rules that apply only when a message has a
5869 specific sender, in particular, an empty sender.
5871 32. Added "control = enforce_sync" and "control = no_enforce_sync". This makes
5872 it possible to be selective about when SMTP synchronization is enforced.
5874 33. Added "control = caseful_local_part" and "control = "caselower_local_part".
5876 32. Implemented hosts_connection_nolog.
5878 33. Added an ACL for QUIT.
5880 34. Setting "delay_warning=" to disable warnings was not working; it gave a
5883 35. Added mailbox_size and mailbox_filecount to appendfile.
5885 36. Added control = no_multiline_responses to ACLs.
5887 37. There was a bug in the logic of the code that waits for the clock to tick
5888 in the case where the clock went backwards by a substantial amount such
5889 that the microsecond fraction of "now" was more than the microsecond
5890 fraction of "then" (but the whole seconds number was less).
5892 38. Added support for the libradius Radius client library this is found on
5893 FreeBSD (previously only the radiusclient library was supported).
5899 1. When certain lookups returned multiple values in the form name=value, the
5900 quoting of the values was not always being done properly. Specifically:
5901 (a) If the value started with a double quote, but contained no whitespace,
5903 (b) If the value contained whitespace other than a space character (i.e.
5904 tabs or newlines or carriage returns) it was not quoted.
5905 This fix has been applied to the mysql and pgsql lookups by writing a
5906 separate quoting function and calling it from the lookup code. The fix
5907 should probably also be applied to nisplus, ibase and oracle lookups, but
5908 since I cannot test any of those, I have not disturbed their existing code.
5910 2. A hit in the callout cache for a specific address caused a log line with no
5911 reason for rejecting RCPT. Now it says "Previous (cached) callout
5912 verification failure".
5914 3. There was an off-by-one bug in the queryprogram router. An over-long
5915 return line was truncated at 256 instead of 255 characters, thereby
5916 overflowing its buffer with the terminating zero. As well as fixing this, I
5917 have increased the buffer size to 1024 (and made a note to document this).
5919 4. If an interrupt, such as the USR1 signal that is send by exiwhat, arrives
5920 when Exim is waiting for an SMTP response from a remote server, Exim
5921 restarts its select() call on the socket, thereby resetting its timeout.
5922 This is not a problem when such interrupts are rare. Somebody set up a cron
5923 job to run exiwhat every 2 minutes, which is less than the normal select()
5924 timeout (5 or 10 minutes). This meant that the select() timeout never
5925 kicked in because it was always reset. I have fixed this by comparing the
5926 time when an interrupt arrives with the time at the start of the first call
5927 to select(). If more time than the timeout has elapsed, the interrupt is
5928 treated as a timeout.
5930 5. Some internal re-factoring in preparation for the addition of Sieve
5931 extensions (by MH). In particular, the "personal" test is moved to a
5932 separate function, and given an option for scanning Cc: and Bcc: (which is
5933 not set for Exim filters).
5935 6. When Exim created an email address using the login of the caller as the
5936 local part (e.g. when creating a From: or Sender: header line), it was not
5937 quoting the local part when it contained special characters such as @.
5939 7. Installed new OpenBSD configuration files.
5941 8. Reworded some messages for syntax errors in "and" and "or" conditions to
5942 try to make them clearer.
5944 9. Callout options, other than the timeout value, were being ignored when
5945 verifying sender addresses in header lines. For example, when using
5947 verify = header_sender/callout=no_cache
5949 the cache was (incorrectly) being used.
5951 10. Added a missing instance of ${EXE} to the exim_install script; this affects
5952 only the Cygwin environment.
5954 11. When return_path_on_delivery was set as a log selector, if different remote
5955 addresses in the same message used different return paths and parallel
5956 remote delivery occurred, the wrong values would sometimes be logged.
5957 (Whenever a remote delivery process finished, the return path value from
5958 the most recently started remote delivery process was logged.)
5960 12. RFC 3848 specifies standard names for the "with" phrase in Received: header
5961 lines when AUTH and/or TLS are in use. This is the "received protocol"
5962 field. Exim used to use "asmtp" for authenticated SMTP, without any
5963 indication (in the protocol name) for TLS use. Now it follows the RFC and
5964 uses "esmtpa" if the connection is authenticated, "esmtps" if it is
5965 encrypted, and "esmtpsa" if it is both encrypted and authenticated. These
5966 names appear in log lines as well as in Received: header lines.
5968 13. Installed MH's patches for Sieve to add the "copy" and "vacation"
5969 extensions, and comparison tests, and to fix some bugs.
5971 14. Changes to the "personal" filter test:
5973 (1) The test was buggy in that it was just doing the equivalent of
5974 "contains" tests on header lines. For example, if a user's address was
5975 anne@some.where, the "personal" test would incorrectly be true for
5977 To: susanne@some.where
5979 This test is now done by extracting each address from the header in turn,
5980 and checking the entire address. Other tests that are part of "personal"
5981 are now done using regular expressions (for example, to check local parts
5982 of addresses in From: header lines).
5984 (2) The list of non-personal local parts in From: addresses has been
5985 extended to include "listserv", "majordomo", "*-request", and "owner-*",
5986 taken from the Sieve specification recommendations.
5988 (3) If the message contains any header line starting with "List-" it is
5989 treated as non-personal.
5991 (4) The test for "circular" in the Subject: header line has been removed
5992 because it now seems ill-conceived.
5994 15. Minor typos in src/EDITME comments corrected.
5996 16. Installed latest exipick from John Jetmore.
5998 17. If headers_add on a router specified a text string that was too long for
5999 string_sprintf() - that is, longer than 8192 bytes - Exim panicked. The use
6000 of string_sprintf() is now avoided.
6002 18. $message_body_size was not set (it was always zero) when running the DATA
6003 ACL and the local_scan() function.
6005 19. For the "mail" command in an Exim filter, no default was being set for
6006 the once_repeat time, causing a random time value to be used if "once" was
6007 specified. (If the value happened to be <= 0, no repeat happened.) The
6008 default is now 0s, meaning "never repeat". The "vacation" command was OK
6009 (its default is 7d). It's somewhat surprising nobody ever noticed this bug
6010 (I found it when inspecting the code).
6012 20. There is now an overall timeout for performing a callout verification. It
6013 defaults to 4 times the callout timeout, which applies to individual SMTP
6014 commands during the callout. The overall timeout applies when there is more
6015 than one host that can be tried. The timeout is checked before trying the
6016 next host. This prevents very long delays if there are a large number of
6017 hosts and all are timing out (e.g. when the network connections are timing
6018 out). The value of the overall timeout can be changed by specifying an
6019 additional sub-option for "callout", called "maxwait". For example:
6021 verify = sender/callout=5s,maxwait=20s
6023 21. Add O_APPEND to the open() call for maildirsize files (Exim already seeks
6024 to the end before writing, but this should make it even safer).
6026 22. Exim was forgetting that it had advertised PIPELINING for the second and
6027 subsequent messages on an SMTP connection. It was also not resetting its
6028 memory on STARTTLS and an internal HELO.
6030 23. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error within a session, it now
6031 records whether PIPELINING has been advertised or not.
6033 24. Added 3 instances of "(long int)" casts to time_t variables that were being
6034 formatted using %ld, because on OpenBSD (and perhaps others), time_t is int
6035 rather than long int.
6037 25. Installed the latest Cygwin configuration files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6039 26. Added the never_mail option to autoreply.
6045 1. A reorganization of the code in order to implement 4.40/8 caused a daemon
6046 crash if the getsockname() call failed; this can happen if a connection is
6047 closed very soon after it is established. The problem was simply in the
6048 order in which certain operations were done, causing Exim to try to write
6049 to the SMTP stream before it had set up the file descriptor. The bug has
6050 been fixed by making things happen in the correct order.
6056 1. If "drop" was used in a DATA ACL, the SMTP output buffer was not flushed
6057 before the connection was closed, thus losing the rejection response.
6059 2. Commented out the definition of SOCKLEN_T in os.h-SunOS5. It is needed for
6060 some early Solaris releases, but causes trouble in current releases where
6061 socklen_t is defined.
6063 3. When std{in,out,err} are closed, re-open them to /dev/null so that they
6066 4. Minor refactoring of os.c-Linux to avoid compiler warning when IPv6 is not
6069 5. Refactoring in expand.c to improve memory usage. Pre-allocate a block so
6070 that releasing the top of it at the end releases what was used for sub-
6071 expansions (unless the block got too big). However, discard this block if
6072 the first thing is a variable or header, so that we can use its block when
6073 it is dynamic (useful for very large $message_headers, for example).
6075 6. Lookups now cache *every* query, not just the most recent. A new, separate
6076 store pool is used for this. It can be recovered when all lookup caches are
6077 flushed. Lookups now release memory at the end of their result strings.
6078 This has involved some general refactoring of the lookup sources.
6080 7. Some code has been added to the store_xxx() functions to reduce the amount
6081 of flapping under certain conditions.
6083 8. log_incoming_interface used to affect only the <= reception log lines. Now
6084 it causes the local interface and port to be added to several more SMTP log
6085 lines, for example "SMTP connection from", and rejection lines.
6087 9. The Sieve author supplied some patches for the doc/README.SIEVE file.
6089 10. Added a conditional definition of _BSD_SOCKLEN_T to os.h-Darwin.
6091 11. If $host_data was set by virtue of a hosts lookup in an ACL, its value
6092 could be overwritten at the end of the current message (or the start of a
6093 new message if it was set in a HELO ACL). The value is now preserved for
6094 the duration of the SMTP connection.
6096 12. If a transport had a headers_rewrite setting, and a matching header line
6097 contained an unqualified address, that address was qualified, even if it
6098 did not match any rewriting rules. The underlying bug was that the values
6099 of the flags that permit the existence of unqualified sender and recipient
6100 addresses in header lines (set by {sender,recipient}_unqualified_hosts for
6101 non-local messages, and by -bnq for local messages) were not being
6102 preserved with the message after it was received.
6104 13. When Exim was logging an SMTP synchronization error, it could sometimes log
6105 "next input=" as part of the text comprising the host identity instead of
6106 the correct text. The code was using the same buffer for two different
6107 strings. However, depending on which order the printing function evaluated
6108 its arguments, the bug did not always show up. Under Linux, for example, my
6109 test suite worked just fine.
6111 14. Exigrep contained a use of Perl's "our" scoping after change 4.31/70. This
6112 doesn't work with some older versions of Perl. It has been changed to "my",
6113 which in any case is probably the better facility to use.
6115 15. A really picky compiler found some instances of statements for creating
6116 error messages that either had too many or two few arguments for the format
6119 16. The size of the buffer for calls to the DNS resolver has been increased
6120 from 1024 to 2048. A larger buffer is needed when performing PTR lookups
6121 for addresses that have a lot of PTR records. This alleviates a problem; it
6122 does not fully solve it.
6124 17. A dnsdb lookup for PTR records that receives more data than will fit in the
6125 buffer now truncates the list and logs the incident, which is the same
6126 action as happens when Exim is looking up a host name and its aliases.
6127 Previously in this situation something unpredictable would happen;
6128 sometimes it was "internal error: store_reset failed".
6130 18. If a server dropped the connection unexpectedly when an Exim client was
6131 using GnuTLS and trying to read a response, the client delivery process
6132 crashed while trying to generate an error log message.
6134 19. If a "warn" verb in an ACL added multiple headers to a message in a single
6135 string, for example:
6137 warn message = H1: something\nH2: something
6139 the text was added as a single header line from Exim's point of view
6140 though it ended up OK in the delivered message. However, searching for the
6141 second and subsequent header lines using $h_h2: did not work. This has been
6142 fixed. Similarly, if a system filter added multiple headers in this way,
6143 the routers could not see them.
6145 20. Expanded the error message when iplsearch is called with an invalid key to
6146 suggest using net-iplsearch in a host list.
6148 21. When running tests using -bh, any delays imposed by "delay" modifiers in
6149 ACLs are no longer actually imposed (and a message to that effect is
6152 22. If a "gecos" field in a passwd entry contained escaped characters, in
6153 particular, if it contained a \" sequence, Exim got it wrong when building
6154 a From: or a Sender: header from that name. A second bug also caused
6155 incorrect handling when an unquoted " was present following a character
6156 that needed quoting.
6158 23. "{crypt}" as a password encryption mechanism for a "crypteq" expansion item
6159 was not being matched caselessly.
6161 24. Arranged for all hyphens in the exim.8 source to be escaped with
6164 25. Change 16 of 4.32, which reversed 71 or 4.31 didn't quite do the job
6165 properly. Recipient callout cache records were still being keyed to include
6166 the sender, even when use_sender was set false. This led to far more
6167 callouts that were necessary. The sender is no longer included in the key
6168 when use_sender is false.
6170 26. Added "control = submission" modifier to ACLs.
6172 27. Added the ${base62d: operator to decode base 62 numbers.
6174 28. dnsdb lookups can now access SRV records.
6176 29. CONFIGURE_OWNER can be set at build time to define an alternative owner for
6177 the configuration file.
6179 30. The debug message "delivering xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xx" is now output in verbose
6180 (-v) mode. This makes the output for a verbose queue run more intelligible.
6182 31. Added a use_postmaster feature to recipient callouts.
6184 32. Added the $body_zerocount variable, containing the number of binary zero
6185 bytes in the message body.
6187 33. The time of last modification of the "new" subdirectory is now used as the
6188 "mailbox time last read" when there is a quota error for a maildir
6191 34. Added string comparison operators lt, lti, le, lei, gt, gti, ge, gei.
6193 35. Added +ignore_unknown as a special item in host lists.
6195 36. Code for decoding IPv6 addresses in host lists is now included, even if
6196 IPv6 support is not being compiled. This fixes a bug in which an IPv6
6197 address was recognized as an IP address, but was then not correctly decoded
6198 into binary, causing unexpected and incorrect effects when compared with
6205 1. Very minor rewording of debugging text in manualroute to say "list of
6206 hosts" instead of "hostlist".
6208 2. If verify=header_syntax was set, and a header line with an unqualified
6209 address (no domain) and a large number of spaces between the end of the
6210 name and the colon was received, the reception process suffered a buffer
6211 overflow, and (when I tested it) crashed. This was caused by some obsolete
6212 code that should have been removed. The fix is to remove it!
6214 3. When running in the test harness, delay a bit after writing a bounce
6215 message to get a bit more predictability in the log output.
6217 4. Added a call to search_tidyup() just before forking a reception process. In
6218 theory, someone could use a lookup in the expansion of smtp_accept_max_
6219 per_host which, without the tidyup, could leave open a database connection.
6221 5. Added the variables $recipient_data and $sender_data which get set from a
6222 lookup success in an ACL "recipients" or "senders" condition, or a router
6223 "senders" option, similar to $domain_data and $local_part_data.
6225 6. Moved the writing of debug_print from before to after the "senders" test
6228 7. Change 4.31/66 (moving the time when the Received: is generated) caused
6229 problems for message scanning, either using a data ACL, or using
6230 local_scan() because the Received: header was not generated till after they
6231 were called (in order to set the time as the time of reception completion).
6232 I have revised the way this works. The header is now generated after the
6233 body is received, but before the ACL or local_scan() are called. After they
6234 are run, the timestamp in the header is updated.
6240 1. Change 4.24/6 introduced a bug because the SIGALRM handler was disabled
6241 before starting a queue runner without re-exec. This happened only when
6242 deliver_drop_privilege was set or when the Exim user was set to root. The
6243 effect of the bug was that timeouts during subsequent deliveries caused
6244 crashes instead of being properly handled. The handler is now left at its
6245 default (and expected) setting.
6247 2. The other case in which a daemon avoids a re-exec is to deliver an incoming
6248 message, again when deliver_drop_privilege is set or Exim is run as root.
6249 The bug described in (1) was not present in this case, but the tidying up
6250 of the other signals was missing. I have made the two cases consistent.
6252 3. The ignore_target_hosts setting on a manualroute router was being ignored
6253 for hosts that were looked up using the /MX notation.
6255 4. Added /ignore=<ip list> feature to @mx_any, @mx_primary, and @mx_secondary
6258 5. Change 4.31/55 was buggy, and broke when there was a rewriting rule that
6259 operated on the sender address. After changing the $sender_address to <>
6260 for the sender address verify, Exim was re-instated it as the original
6261 (before rewriting) address, but remembering that it had rewritten it, so it
6262 wasn't rewriting it again. This bug also had the effect of breaking the
6263 sender address verification caching when the sender address was rewritten.
6265 6. The ignore_target_hosts option was being ignored by the ipliteral router.
6266 This has been changed so that if the ip literal address matches
6267 ignore_target_hosts, the router declines.
6269 7. Added expansion conditions match_domain, match_address, and match_local_
6270 part (NOT match_host).
6272 8. The placeholder for the Received: header didn't have a length field set.
6274 9. Added code to Exim itself and to exim_lock to test for a specific race
6275 condition that could lead to file corruption when using MBX delivery. The
6276 issue is with the lockfile that is created in /tmp. If this file is removed
6277 after a process has opened it but before that process has acquired a lock,
6278 there is the potential for a second process to recreate the file and also
6279 acquire a lock. This could lead to two Exim processes writing to the file
6280 at the same time. The added code performs the same test as UW imapd; it
6281 checks after acquiring the lock that its file descriptor still refers to
6282 the same named file.
6284 10. The buffer for building added header lines was of fixed size, 8192 bytes.
6285 It is now parameterized by HEADER_ADD_BUFFER_SIZE and this can be adjusted
6288 11. Added the smtp_active_hostname option. If used, this will typically be made
6289 to depend on the incoming interface address. Because $interface_address is
6290 not set up until the daemon has forked a reception process, error responses
6291 that can happen earlier (such as "too many connections") no longer contain
6294 12. If an expansion in a condition on a "warn" statement fails because a lookup
6295 defers, the "warn" statement is abandoned, and the next ACL statement is
6296 processed. Previously this caused the whole ACL to be aborted.
6298 13. Added the iplsearch lookup type.
6300 14. Added ident_timeout as a log selector.
6302 15. Added tls_certificate_verified as a log selector.
6304 16. Added a global option tls_require_ciphers (compare the smtp transport
6305 option of the same name). This controls incoming TLS connections.
6307 17. I finally figured out how to make tls_require_ciphers do a similar thing
6308 in GNUtls to what it does in OpenSSL, that is, set up an appropriate list
6309 before starting the TLS session.
6311 18. Tabs are now shown as \t in -bP output.
6313 19. If the log selector return_path_on_delivery was set, Exim crashed when
6314 bouncing a message because it had too many Received: header lines.
6316 20. If two routers both had headers_remove settings, and the first one included
6317 a superfluous trailing colon, the final name in the first list and the
6318 first name in the second list were incorrectly joined into one item (with a
6319 colon in the middle).
6325 1. Added -C and -D options to the exinext utility, mainly to make it easier
6326 to include in the automated testing, but these could be helpful when
6327 multiple configurations are in use.
6329 2. The exinext utility was not formatting the output nicely when there was
6330 an alternate port involved in the retry record key, nor when there was a
6331 message id as well (for retries that were specific to a specific message
6332 and a specific host). It was also confused by IPv6 addresses, because of
6333 the additional colons they contain. I have fixed the IPv4 problem, and
6334 patched it up to do a reasonable job for IPv6.
6336 3. When there is an error after a MAIL, RCPT, or DATA SMTP command during
6337 delivery, the log line now contains "pipelined" if PIPELINING was used.
6339 4. An SMTP transport process used to panic and die if the bind() call to set
6340 an explicit outgoing interface failed. This has been changed; it is now
6341 treated in the same way as a connect() failure.
6343 5. A reference to $sender_host_name in the part of a conditional expansion
6344 that was being skipped was still causing a DNS lookup. This no longer
6347 6. The def: expansion condition was not recognizing references to header lines
6348 that used bh_ and bheader_.
6350 7. Added the _cache feature to named lists.
6352 8. The code for checking quota_filecount in the appendfile transport was
6353 allowing one more file than it should have been.
6355 9. For compatibility with Sendmail, the command line option
6363 and sets the incoming protocol and host name (for trusted callers). The
6364 host name and its colon can be omitted when only the protocol is to be set.
6365 Note the Exim already has two private options, -pd and -ps, that refer to
6366 embedded Perl. It is therefore impossible to set a protocol value of "d" or
6367 "s", but I don't think that's a major issue.
6369 10. A number of refactoring changes to the code, none of which should affect
6372 (a) The number of logging options was getting close to filling up the
6373 32-bit word that was used as a bit map. I have split them into two classes:
6374 those that are passed in the argument to log_write(), and those that are
6375 only ever tested independently outside of that function. These are now in
6376 separate 32-bit words, so there is plenty of room for expansion again.
6377 There is no change in the user interface or the logging behaviour.
6379 (b) When building, for example, log lines, the code previously used a
6380 macro that called string_cat() twice, in order to add two strings. This is
6381 not really sufficiently general. Furthermore, there was one instance where
6382 it was actually wrong because one of the argument was used twice, and in
6383 one call a function was used. (As it happened, calling the function twice
6384 did not affect the overall behaviour.) The macro has been replaced by a
6385 function that can join an arbitrary number of extra strings onto a growing
6388 (c) The code for expansion conditions now uses a table and a binary chop
6389 instead of a serial search (which was left over from when there were very
6390 few conditions). Also, it now recognizes conditions like "pam" even when
6391 the relevant support is not compiled in: a suitably worded error message is
6392 given if an attempt is made to use such a condition.
6394 11. Added ${time_interval:xxxxx}.
6396 12. A bug was causing one of the ddress fields not to be passed back correctly
6397 from remote delivery subprocesses. The field in question was not being
6398 subsequently used, so this caused to problems in practice.
6400 13. Added new log selectors queue_time and deliver_time.
6402 14. Might have fixed a bug in maildirsizefile handling that threw up
6403 "unexpected character" debug warnings, and recalculated the data
6404 unnecessarily. In any case, I expanded the warning message to give more
6407 15. Added the message "Restricted characters in address" to the statements in
6408 the default ACL that block characters like @ and % in local parts.
6410 16. Change 71 for release 4.31 proved to be much less benign that I imagined.
6411 Three changes have been made:
6413 (a) There was a serious bug; a negative response to MAIL caused the whole
6414 recipient domain to be cached as invalid, thereby blocking all messages
6415 to all local parts at the same domain, from all senders. This bug has
6416 been fixed. The domain is no longer cached after a negative response to
6417 MAIL if the sender used is not empty.
6419 (b) The default behaviour of using MAIL FROM:<> for recipient callouts has
6422 (c) A new callout option, "use_sender" has been added for people who want
6423 the modified behaviour.
6429 1. Removed "EXTRALIBS=-lwrap" from OS/Makefile-Unixware7 on the advice of
6432 2. Removed "LIBS = -lresolv" from OS/Makefile-Darwin as it is not needed, and
6433 indeed breaks things for older releases.
6435 3. Added additional logging to the case where there is a problem reading data
6436 from a filter that is running in a subprocess using a pipe, in order to
6437 try to track down a specific problem.
6439 4. Testing facility fudge: when running in the test harness and attempting
6440 to connect to 10.x.x.x (expecting a connection timeout) I'm now sometimes
6441 getting "No route to host". Convert this to a timeout.
6443 5. Define ICONV_ARG2_TYPE as "char **" for Unixware7 to avoid compiler
6446 6. Some OS don't have socklen_t but use size_t instead. This affects the
6447 fifth argument of getsockopt() amongst other things. This is now
6448 configurable by a macro called SOCKLEN_T which defaults to socklen_t, but
6449 can be set for individual OS. I have set it for SunOS5, OSF1, and
6450 Unixware7. Current versions of SunOS5 (aka Solaris) do have socklen_t, but
6451 some earlier ones do not.
6453 7. Change 4.30/15 was not doing the test caselessly.
6455 8. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by address
6456 parsing in, for example, MAIL and RCPT commands. An example of this kind of
6457 address is [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6458 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front (but only when
6459 address literals are enabled, of course).
6461 9. Added some casts to avoid compiler warnings in OS/os.c-Linux.
6463 10. Exim crashed if a message with an empty sender address specified by -f
6464 encountered a router with an errors_to setting. This could be provoked only
6465 by a command such as
6469 where an empty string was supplied; "<>" did not hit this bug.
6471 11. Installed PCRE release 4.5.
6473 12. If EHLO/HELO was rejected by an ACL, the value of $sender_helo_name
6474 remained set. It is now erased.
6476 13. exiqgrep wasn't working on MacOS X because it didn't correctly compute
6477 times from message ids (which are base 36 rather than the normal 62).
6479 14. "Expected" SMTP protocol errors that can arise when PIPELINING is in use
6480 were being counted as actual protocol errors, and logged if the log
6481 selector +smtp_protocol_error was set. One cannot be perfect in this test,
6482 but now, if PIPELINING has been advertised, RCPT following a rejected MAIL,
6483 and DATA following a set of rejected RCPTs do not count as protocol errors.
6484 In other words, Exim assumes they were pipelined, though this may not
6485 actually be the case. Of course, in all cases the client gets an
6486 appropriate error code.
6488 15. If a lookup fails in an ACL condition, a message about the failure may
6489 be available; it is used if testing the ACL cannot continue, because most
6490 such messages specify what the cause of the deferral is. However, some
6491 messages (e.g. "MYSQL: no data found") do not cause a defer. There was bug
6492 that caused an old message to be retained and used if a later statement
6493 caused a defer, replacing the real cause of the deferral.
6495 16. If an IP address had so many PTR records that the DNS lookup buffer
6496 was not large enough to hold them, Exim could crash while trying to process
6497 the truncated data. It now detects and logs this case.
6499 17. Further to 4.21/58, another change has been made: if (and only if) the
6500 first line of a message (the first header line) ends with CRLF, a bare LF
6501 in a subsequent header line has a space inserted after it, so as not to
6502 terminate the header.
6504 18. Refactoring: tidied an ugly bit of code in appendfile that copied data
6505 unnecessarily, used atoi() instead of strtol(), and didn't check the
6506 termination when getting file sizes from file names by regex.
6508 19. Completely re-implemented the support for maildirsize files, in the light
6509 of a number of problems with the previous contributed implementation
6510 (4.30/29). In particular:
6512 . If the quota is zero, the maildirsize file is maintained, but no quota is
6515 . If the maildir directory does not exist, it is created before any attempt
6516 to write a maildirsize file.
6518 . The quota value in the file is just a cache; if the quota is changed in
6519 the transport, the new value overrides.
6521 . A regular expression is available for excluding directories from the
6524 20. The autoreply transport checks the characters in options that define the
6525 message's headers; it allows continued headers, but it was checking with
6526 isspace() after an embedded newline instead of explicitly looking for a
6529 21. If all the "regular" hosts to which an address was routed had passed their
6530 expiry times, and had not reached their retry times, the address was
6531 bounced, even if fallback hosts were defined. Now Exim should go on to try
6534 22. Increased buffer sizes in the callout code from 1024 to 4096 to match the
6535 equivalent code in the SMTP transport. Some hosts send humungous responses
6536 to HELO/EHLO, more than 1024 it seems.
6538 23. Refactoring: code in filter.c used (void *) for "any old type" but this
6539 gives compiler warnings in some environments. I've now done it "properly",
6542 24. The replacement for inet_ntoa() that is used with gcc on IRIX systems
6543 (because of problems with the built-in one) was declared to return uschar *
6544 instead of char *, causing compiler failure.
6546 25. Fixed a file descriptor leak when processing alias/forward files.
6548 26. Fixed a minor format string issue in dbfn.c.
6550 27. Typo in exim.c: ("dmbnz" for "dbmnz").
6552 28. If a filter file refered to $h_xxx or $message_headers, and the headers
6553 contained RFC 2047 "words", Exim's memory could, under certain conditions,
6556 29. When a sender address is verified, it is cached, to save repeating the test
6557 when there is more than one recipient in a message. However, when the
6558 verification involves a callout, it is possible for different callout
6559 options to be set for different recipients. It is too complicated to keep
6560 track of this in the cache, so now Exim always runs a verification when a
6561 callout is required, relying on the callout cache for the optimization.
6562 The overhead is duplication of the address routing, but this should not be
6565 30. Fixed a bug in callout caching. If a RCPT command caused the sender address
6566 to be verified with callout=postmaster, and the main callout worked but the
6567 postmaster check failed, the verification correctly failed. However, if a
6568 subsequent RCPT command asked for sender verification *without* the
6569 postmaster check, incorrect caching caused this verification also to fail,
6572 31. Exim caches DNS lookup failures so as to avoid multiple timeouts; however,
6573 it was not caching the DNS options (qualify_single, search_parents) that
6574 were used when the lookup failed. A subsequent lookup with different
6575 options therefore always gave the same answer, though there were cases
6576 where it should not have. (Example: a "domains = !$mx_any" option on a
6577 dnslookup router: the "domains" option is always processed without any
6578 widening, but the router might have qualify_single set.) Now Exim uses the
6579 cached value only when the same options are set.
6581 32. Added John Jetmore's "exipick" utility to the distribution.
6583 33. GnuTLS: When an attempt to start a TLS session fails for any reason other
6584 than a timeout (e.g. a certificate is required, and is not provided), an
6585 Exim server now closes the connection immediately. Previously it waited for
6586 the client to close - but if the client is SSL, it seems that they each
6587 wait for each other, leading to a delay before one of them times out.
6589 34: GnuTLS: Updated the code to use the new GnuTLS 1.0.0 API. I have not
6590 maintained 0.8.x compatibility because I don't think many are using it, and
6591 it is clearly obsolete.
6593 35. Added TLS support for CRLs: a tls_crl global option and one for the smtp
6596 36. OpenSSL: $tls_certificate_verified was being set to 1 even if the
6597 client certificate was expired. A simple patch fixes this, though I don't
6598 understand the full logic of why the verify callback is called multiple
6601 37. OpenSSL: a patch from Robert Roselius: "Enable client-bug workaround.
6602 Versions of OpenSSL as of 0.9.6d include a 'CBC countermeasure' feature,
6603 which causes problems with some clients (such as the Certicom SSL Plus
6604 library used by Eudora). This option, SSL_OP_DONT_INSERT_EMPTY_FRAGMENTS,
6605 disables the coutermeasure allowing Eudora to connect."
6607 38. Exim was not checking that a write() to a log file succeeded. This could
6608 lead to Bad Things if a log got too big, in particular if it hit a file
6609 size limit. Exim now panics and dies if it cannot write to a log file, just
6610 as it does if it cannot open a log file.
6612 39. Modified OS/Makefile-Linux so that it now contains
6614 CFLAGS=-O -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
6616 The two -D definitions ensure that Exim is compiled with large file
6617 support, which makes it possible to handle log files that are bigger than
6620 40. Fixed a subtle caching bug: if (in an ACL or a set of routers, for
6621 instance) a domain was checked against a named list that involved a lookup,
6622 causing $domain_data to be set, then another domain was checked against the
6623 same list, then the first domain was re-checked, the value of $domain_data
6624 after the final check could be wrong. In particular, if the second check
6625 failed, it could be set empty. This bug probably also applied to
6628 41. The strip_trailing_dot option was not being applied to the address given
6629 with the -f command-line option.
6631 42. The code for reading a message's header from the spool was incrementing
6632 $received_count, but never initializing it. This meant that the value was
6633 incorrect (doubled) while delivering a message in the same process in which
6634 it was received. In the most common configuration of Exim, this never
6635 happens - a fresh exec is done - but it can happen when
6636 deliver_drop_privilege is set.
6638 43. When Exim logs an SMTP synchronization error - client data sent too soon -
6639 it now includes up to 150 characters of the unexpected data in the log
6642 44. The exim_dbmbuild utility uses fixed size buffers for reading input lines
6643 and building data strings. The size of both of these buffers was 10 000
6644 bytes - far larger than anybody would *ever* want, thought I. Needless to
6645 say, somebody hit the limit. I have increased the maximum line length to
6646 20 000 and the maximum data length of concatenated lines to 100 000. I have
6647 also fixed two bugs, because there was no checking on these buffers. Tsk,
6648 tsk. Now exim_dbmbuild gives a message and exits with an error code if a
6649 buffer is too small.
6651 45. The exim_dbmbuild utility did not support quoted keys, as Exim does in
6652 lsearch lookups. Now it does.
6654 46. When parsing a route_list item in a manualroute router, a fixed-length
6655 buffer was used for the list of hosts. I made this 1024 bytes long,
6656 thinking that nobody would ever have a list of hosts that long. Wrong.
6657 Somebody had a whole pile of complicated expansion conditions, and the
6658 string was silently truncated, leading to an expansion error. It turns out
6659 that it is easier to change to an unlimited length (owing to other changes
6660 that have happened since this code was originally written) than to build
6661 structure for giving a limitation error. The length of the item that
6662 expands into the list of hosts is now unlimited.
6664 47. The lsearch lookup could not handle data where the length of text line was
6665 more than 4095 characters. Such lines were truncated, leading to shortened
6666 data being returned. It should now handle lines of any length.
6668 48. Minor wording revision: "cannot test xxx in yyy ACL" becomes "cannot test
6669 xxx condition in yyy ACL" (e.g. "cannot test domains condition in DATA
6672 49. Cosmetic tidy to scripts like exicyclog that are generated by globally
6673 replacing strings such as BIN_DIRECTORY in a source file: the replacement
6674 no longer happens in comment lines. A list of replacements is now placed
6675 at the head of all of the source files, except those whose only change is
6676 to replace PERL_COMMAND in the very first #! line.
6678 50. Replaced the slow insertion sort in queue.c, for sorting the list of
6679 messages on the queue, with a bottom-up merge sort, using code contributed
6680 by Michael Haardt. This should make operations like -bp somewhat faster on
6681 large queues. It won't affect queue runners, except when queue_run_in_order
6684 51. Installed eximstats 1.31 in the distribution.
6686 52. Added support for SRV lookups to the dnslookup router.
6688 53. If an ACL referred to $message_body or $message_body_end, the value was not
6689 reset for any messages that followed in the same SMTP session.
6691 54. The store-handling optimization for building very long strings was not
6692 differentiating between the different store pools. I don't think this
6693 actually made any difference in practice, but I've tidied it.
6695 55. While running the routers to verify a sender address, $sender_address
6696 was still set to the sender address. This is wrong, because when routing to
6697 send a bounce to the sender, it would be empty. Therefore, I have changed
6698 it so that, while verifying a sender address, $sender_address is set to <>.
6699 (There is no change to what happens when verifying a recipient address.)
6701 56. After finding MX (or SRV) records, Exim was doing a DNS lookup for the
6702 target A or AAAA records (if not already returned) without resetting the
6703 qualify_single or search_parents options of the DNS resolver. These are
6704 inappropriate in this case because the targets of MX and SRV records must
6705 be FQDNs. A broken DNS record could cause trouble if it happened to have a
6706 target that, when qualified, matched something in the local domain. These
6707 two options are now turned off when doing these lookups.
6709 57. It seems that at least some releases of Reiserfs (which does not have the
6710 concept of a fixed number of inodes) returns zero and not -1 for the
6711 number of available inodes. This interacted badly with check_spool_inodes,
6712 which assumed that -1 was the "no such thing" setting. What I have done is
6713 to check that the total number of inodes is greater than zero before doing
6714 the test of how many are available.
6716 58. When a "warn" ACL statement has a log_message modifier, the message is
6717 remembered, and not repeated. This is to avoid a lot of repetition when a
6718 message has many recipients that cause the same warning to be written.
6719 However, Exim was preserving the list of already written lines for an
6720 entire SMTP session, which doesn't seem right. The memory is now reset if a
6721 new message is started.
6723 59. The "rewrite" debugging flag was not showing the result of rewriting in the
6724 debugging output unless log_rewrite was also set.
6726 60. Avoid a compiler warning on 64-bit systems in dsearch.c by avoiding the use
6727 of (int)(handle) when we know that handle contains (void *)(-1).
6729 61. The Exim daemon panic-logs an error return when it closes the incoming
6730 connection. However "connection reset by peer" seems to be common, and
6731 isn't really an error worthy of noting specially, so that particular error
6734 62. When Exim is trying to find all the local interfaces, it used to panic and
6735 die if the ioctl to get the interface flags failed. However, it seems that
6736 on at least one OS (Solaris 9) it is possible to have an interface that is
6737 included in the list of interfaces, but for which you get a failure error
6738 for this call. This happens when the interface is not "plumbed" into a
6739 protocol (i.e. neither IPv4 nor IPv6). I've changed the code so that a
6740 failure of the "get flags" call assumes that the interface is down.
6742 63. Added a ${eval10: operator, which assumes all numbers are decimal. This
6743 makes life easier for people who are doing arithmetic on fields extracted
6744 from dates, where you often get leading zeros that should not be
6745 interpreted as octal.
6747 64. Added qualify_domain to the redirect router, to override the global
6750 65. If a pathologically long header line contained very many addresses (the
6751 report of this problem mentioned 10 000) and each of them was rewritten,
6752 Exim could use up a very large amount of memory. (It kept on making new
6753 copies of the header line as it rewrote, and never released the old ones.)
6754 At the expense of a bit more processing, the header rewriting function has
6755 been changed so that it no longer eats memory in this way.
6757 66. The generation of the Received: header has been moved from the time that a
6758 message starts to be received, to the time that it finishes. The timestamp
6759 in the Received: header should now be very close to that of the <= log
6760 line. There are two side-effects of this change:
6762 (a) If a message is rejected by a DATA or non-SMTP ACL or local_scan(), the
6763 logged header lines no longer include the local Received: line, because
6764 it has not yet been created. The same applies to a copy of the message
6765 that is returned to a non-SMTP sender when a message is rejected.
6767 (b) When a filter file is tested using -bf, no additional Received: header
6768 is added to the test message. After some thought, I decided that this
6771 This change does not affect the value of $received_for. It is still set
6772 after address rewriting, but before local_scan() is called.
6774 67. Installed the latest Cygwin-specific files from the Cygwin maintainer.
6776 68. GnuTLS: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, GnuTLS
6777 gave an unhelpful panic error message, and a defer error. I have managed to
6778 change this behaviour so that it now rejects any supplied certificate,
6779 which seems right, as the list of acceptable certificates is empty.
6781 69. OpenSSL: If an empty file is specified for tls_verify_certificates, OpenSSL
6782 gave an unhelpful defer error. I have not managed to make this reject any
6783 supplied certificates, but the error message it gives is "no certificate
6784 supplied", which is not helpful.
6786 70. exigrep's output now also includes lines that are not associated with any
6787 message, but which match the given pattern. Implemented by a patch from
6788 Martin Sluka, which also tidied up the Perl a bit.
6790 71. Recipient callout verification, like sender verification, was using <> in
6791 the MAIL FROM command. This isn't really the right thing, since the actual
6792 sender may affect whether the remote host accepts the recipient or not. I
6793 have changed it to use the actual sender in the callout; this means that
6794 the cache record is now keyed on a recipient/sender pair, not just the
6795 recipient address. There doesn't seem to be a real danger of callout loops,
6796 since a callout by the remote host to check the sender would use <>.
6797 [SEE ABOVE: changed after hitting problems.]
6799 72. Exim treats illegal SMTP error codes that do not begin with 4 or 5 as
6800 temporary errors. However, in the case of such a code being given after
6801 the end of a data transmission (i.e. after ".") Exim was failing to write
6802 a retry record for the message. (Yes, there was some broken host that was
6803 actually sending 8xx at this point.)
6805 73. An unknown lookup type in a host list could cause Exim to panic-die when
6806 the list was checked. (An example that provoked this was putting <; in the
6807 middle of a list instead of at the start.) If this happened during a DATA
6808 ACL check, a -D file could be left lying around. This kind of configuration
6809 error no longer causes Exim to die; instead it causes a defer error. The
6810 incident is still logged to the main and panic logs.
6812 74. Buglet left over from Exim 3 conversion. The message "too many messages
6813 in one connection" was written to the rejectlog but not the mainlog, except
6814 when address rewriting (yes!) was being logged.
6816 75. Added write_rejectlog option.
6818 76. When a system filter was run not as root (that is, when system_filter_user
6819 was set), the values of the $n variables were not being returned to the
6820 main process; thus, they were not subsequently available in the $sn
6823 77. Added +return_path_on_delivery log selector.
6825 78. A connection timeout was being treated differently from recipients deferred
6826 when testing hosts_max_try with a message that was older than the host's
6827 retry timeout. (The host should not be counted, thus allowing all hosts to
6828 be tried at least once before bouncing.) This may have been the cause of an
6829 occasionally reported bug whereby a message would remain on the queue
6830 longer than the retry timeout, but would be bounced if a delivery was
6831 forced. I say "may" because I never totally pinned down the problem;
6832 setting up timeout/retry tests is difficult. See also the next item.
6834 79. The ultimate address timeout was not being applied to errors that involved
6835 a combination of host plus message (for example, a timeout on a MAIL
6836 command). When an address resolved to a number of possible hosts, and they
6837 were not all tried for each delivery (e.g. because of hosts_max_try), a
6838 message could remain on the queue longer than the retry timeout.
6840 80. Sieve bug: "stop" inside "elsif" was broken. Applied a patch from Michael
6843 81. Fixed an obscure SMTP outgoing bug which required at least the following
6844 conditions: (a) there was another message waiting for the same server;
6845 (b) the server returned 5xx to all RCPT commands in the first message so
6846 that the message was not completed; (c) the server dropped the connection
6847 or gave a negative response to the RSET that Exim sends to abort the
6848 transaction. The observed case was a dropped connection after DATA that had
6849 been sent in pipelining mode. That is, the server had advertised PIPELINING
6850 but was not implementing it correctly. The effect of the bug was incorrect
6851 behaviour, such as trying another host, and this could lead to a crash.
6857 1. The 3rd arguments to getsockname(), getpeername(), and accept() in exim.c
6858 and daemon.c were passed as pointers to ints; they should have been
6859 pointers to socklen_t variables (which are typically unsigned ints).
6861 2. Some signed/unsigned type warnings in the os.c file for Linux have been
6864 3. Fixed a really odd bug that affected only the testing scheme; patching a
6865 certain fixed string in the binary changed the value of another string that
6866 happened to be identical to the end of the original first string.
6868 4. When gethostbyname() (or equivalent) is passed an IP address as a "host
6869 name", it returns that address as the IP address. On some operating
6870 systems (e.g. Solaris), it also passes back the IP address string as the
6871 "host name". However, on others (e.g. Linux), it passes back an empty
6872 string. Exim wasn't checking for this, and was changing the host name to an
6873 empty string, assuming it had been canonicalized.
6875 5. Although rare, it is permitted to have more than one PTR record for a given
6876 IP address. I thought that gethostbyaddr() or getipnodebyaddr() always gave
6877 all the names associated with an address, because they do in Solaris.
6878 However, it seems that they do not in Linux for data that comes from the
6879 DNS. If an address in /etc/hosts has multiple names, they _are_ all given.
6880 I found this out when I moved to a new Linux workstation and tried to run
6881 the Exim test suite.
6883 To get round this problem I have changed the code so that it now does its
6884 own call to the DNS to look up PTR records when searching for a host name.
6885 If nothing can be found in the DNS, it tries gethostbyaddr(), so that
6886 addresses that are only in /etc/hosts are still found.
6888 This behaviour is, however, controlled by an option called host_lookup_
6889 order, which defaults to "bydns:byaddr". If people want to use the other
6890 order, or indeed, just use one or the other means of lookup, they can
6891 specify it in this variable.
6893 6. If a PTR record yields an empty name, Exim treats it as non-existent. In
6894 some operating systems, this comes back from gethostbyaddr() as an empty
6895 string, and this is what Exim used to test for. However, it seems that in
6896 other systems, "." is yielded. Exim now tests for this case too.
6898 7. The values of check_spool_space and check_log_space are now held internally
6899 as a number of kilobytes instead of an absolute number of bytes. If a
6900 numbers is specified without 'K' or 'M', it is rounded up to the nearest
6901 kilobyte. This means that much larger values can be stored.
6903 8. Exim monitor: an attempt to get the action menu when not actually pointing
6904 at a message produces an empty menu entitled "No message selected". This
6905 works on Solaris (OpenWindows). However, XFree86 does not like a menu with
6906 no entries in it ("Shell widget menu has zero width and/or height"). So I
6907 have added a single, blank menu entry in this case.
6909 9. Added ${quote_local_part.
6911 10. MIME decoding is now applied to the contents of Subject: header lines when
6914 11. Now that a reference to $sender_host_address automatically causes a reverse
6915 lookup to occur if necessary (4.13/18), there is no need to arrange for a
6916 host lookup before query-style lookups in lists that might use this
6917 variable. This has therefore been abolished, and the "net-" prefix is no
6918 longer necessary for query-style lookups.
6920 12. The Makefile for SCO_SV contained a setting of LDFLAGS. This appears to
6921 have been a typo for LFLAGS, so it has been changed.
6923 13. The install script calls Exim with "-C /dev/null" in order to find the
6924 version number. If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set, this caused an error message
6925 to be output. However, since Exim outputs its version number before the
6926 error, it didn't break the script. It just looked ugly. I fixed this by
6927 always allowing "-C /dev/null" if the caller is root.
6929 14. Ignore overlarge ACL variable number when reading spool file - insurance
6930 against a later release with more variables having written the file.
6932 15. The standard form for an IPv6 address literal was being rejected by EHLO.
6933 Example: [IPv6:2002:c1ed:8229:10:202:2dff:fe07:a42a]. Exim now accepts
6934 this, as well as the form without the "IPv6" on the front.
6936 16. Added CHOWN_COMMAND=/usr/sbin/chown and LIBS=-lresolv to the
6937 OS/Makefile-Darwin file.
6939 17. Fixed typo in lookups/ldap.c: D_LOOKUP should be D_lookup. This applied
6940 only to LDAP libraries that do not have LDAP_OPT_DEREF.
6942 18. After change 4.21/52, "%ld" was used to format the contents of the $inode
6943 variable. However, some OS use ints for inodes. I've added cast to long int
6944 to get rid of the compiler warning.
6946 19. I had forgotten to lock out "/../" in configuration file names when
6947 ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX was set.
6949 20. Routers used for verification do not need to specify transports. However,
6950 if such a router generated a host list, and callout was configured, Exim
6951 crashed, because it could not find a port number from the (non-existent)
6952 transport. It now assumes port 25 in this circumstance.
6954 21. Added the -t option to exigrep.
6956 22. If LOOKUP_LSEARCH is defined, all three linear search methods (lsearch,
6957 wildlsearch, nwildlsearch) are compiled. LOOKUP_WILDLSEARCH and LOOKUP_
6958 NWILDLSEARCH are now obsolete, but retained for compatibility. If either of
6959 them is set, LOOKUP_LSEARCH is forced.
6961 23. "exim -bV" now outputs a list of lookups that are included in the binary.
6963 24. Added sender and host information to the "rejected by local_scan()" log
6964 line; previously there was no indication of these.
6966 25. Added .include_if_exists.
6968 26. Change 3.952/11 added an explicit directory sync on top of a file sync for
6969 Linux. It turns out that not all file systems support this. Apparently some
6970 versions of NFS do not. (It's rare to put Exim's spool on NFS, but people
6971 do it.) To cope with this, the error EINVAL, which means that sync-ing is
6972 not supported on the file descriptor, is now ignored when Exim is trying to
6973 sync a directory. This applies only to Linux.
6975 27. Added -DBIND_8_COMPAT to the CLFAGS setting for Darwin.
6977 28. In Darwin (MacOS X), the PAM headers are in /usr/include/pam and not in
6978 /usr/include/security. There's now a flag in OS/os.h-Darwin to cope with
6981 29. Added support for maildirsize files from supplied patch (modified a bit).
6983 30. The use of :fail: followed by an empty string could lead Exim to respond to
6984 sender verification failures with (e.g.):
6986 550 Verification failed for <xxx>
6987 550 Sender verify failed
6989 where the first response line was missing the '-' that indicates it is not
6990 the final line of the response.
6992 31. The loop for finding the name of the user that called Exim had a hardwired
6993 limit of 10; it now uses the value of finduser_retries, which is used for
6994 all other user lookups.
6996 32. Added $received_count variable, available in data and not_smtp ACLs, and at
6999 33. Exim was neglecting to zero errno before one call of strtol() when
7000 expanding a string and expecting an integer value. On some systems this
7001 resulted in spurious "integer overflow" errors. Also, it was casting the
7002 result into an int without checking.
7004 34. Testing for a connection timeout using "timeout_connect" in the retry rules
7005 did not work. The code looks as if it has *never* worked, though it appears
7006 to have been documented since at least release 1.62. I have made it work.
7008 35. The "timeout_DNS" error in retry rules, also documented since at least
7009 1.62, also never worked. As it isn't clear exactly what this means, and
7010 clearly it isn't a major issue, I have abolished the feature by treating it
7011 as "timeout", and writing a warning to the main and panic logs.
7013 36. The display of retry rules for -brt wasn't always showing the error code
7016 37. Added new error conditions to retry rules: timeout_A, timeout_MX,
7017 timeout_connect_A, timeout_connect_MX.
7019 38. Rewriting the envelope sender at SMTP time did not allow it to be rewritten
7020 to the empty sender.
7022 39. The daemon was not analysing the content of -oX till after it had closed
7023 stderr and disconnected from the controlling terminal. This meant that any
7024 syntax errors were only noted on the panic log, and the return code from
7025 the command was 0. By re-arranging the code a little, I've made the
7026 decoding happen first, so such errors now appear on stderr, and the return
7027 code is 1. However, the actual setting up of the sockets still happens in
7028 the disconnected process, so errors there are still only recorded on the
7031 40. A daemon listener on a wildcard IPv6 socket that also accepts IPv4
7032 connections (as happens on some IP stacks) was logged at start up time as
7033 just listening for IPv6. It now logs "IPv6 with IPv4". This differentiates
7034 it from "IPv6 and IPv4", which means that two separate sockets are being
7037 41. The debug output for gethostbyname2() or getipnodebyname() failures now
7038 says whether AF_INET or AF_INET6 was passed as an argument.
7040 42. Exiwhat output was messed up when time zones were included in log
7043 43. Exiwhat now gives more information about the daemon's listening ports,
7044 and whether -tls-on-connect was used.
7046 44. The "port" option of the smtp transport is now expanded.
7048 45. A "message" modifier in a "warn" statement in a non-message ACL was being
7049 silently ignored. Now an error message is written to the main and panic
7052 46. There's a new ACL modifier called "logwrite" which writes to a log file
7053 as soon as it is encountered.
7055 47. Added $local_user_uid and $local_user_gid at routing time.
7057 48. Exim crashed when trying to verify a sender address that was being
7060 49. Exim was recognizing only a space character after ".include". It now also
7061 recognizes a tab character.
7063 50. Fixed several bugs in the Perl script that creates the exim.8 man page by
7064 extracting the relevant information from the specification. The man page no
7065 longer contains scrambled data for the -d option, and I've added a section
7066 at the front about calling Exim under different names.
7068 51. Added "extra_headers" argument to the "mail" command in filter files.
7070 52. Redirecting mail to an unqualified address in a Sieve filter caused Exim to
7073 53. Installed eximstats 1.29.
7075 54. Added transport_filter_timeout as a generic transport option.
7077 55. Exim no longer adds an empty Bcc: header to messages that have no To: or
7078 Cc: header lines. This was required by RFC 822, but it not required by RFC
7081 56. Exim used to add From:, Date:, and Message-Id: header lines to any
7082 incoming messages that did not have them. Now it does so only if the
7083 message originates locally, that is, if there is no associated remote host
7084 address. When Resent- header lines are present, this applies to the Resent-
7085 lines rather than the non-Resent- lines.
7087 57. Drop incoming SMTP connection after too many syntax or protocol errors. The
7088 limit is controlled by smtp_max_synprot_errors, defaulting to 3.
7090 58. Messages for configuration errors now include the name of the main
7091 configuration file - useful now that there may be more than one file in a
7092 list (.included file names were always shown).
7094 59. Change 4.21/82 (run initgroups() when starting the daemon) causes problems
7095 for those rare installations that do not start the daemon as root or run it
7096 setuid root. I've cut out the call to initgroups() if the daemon is not
7099 60. The Exim user and group can now be bound into the binary as text strings
7100 that are looked up at the start of Exim's processing.
7102 61. Applied a small patch for the Interbase code, supplied by Ard Biesheuvel.
7104 62. Added $mailstore_basename variable.
7106 63. Installed patch to sieve.c from Michael Haardt.
7108 64. When Exim failed to open the panic log after failing to open the main log,
7109 the original message it was trying to log was written to stderr and debug
7110 output, but if they were not available (the usual case in production), it
7111 was lost. Now it is written to syslog before the two lines that record the
7112 failures to open the logs.
7114 65. Users' Exim filters run in subprocesses under the user's uid. It is
7115 possible for a "deliver" command or an alias in a "personal" command to
7116 provoke an address rewrite. If logging of address rewriting is configured,
7117 this fails because the process is not running as root or exim. There may be
7118 a better way of dealing with this, but for the moment (because 4.30 needs
7119 to be released), I have disabled address rewrite logging when running a
7120 filter in a non-root, non-exim process.
7126 1. The buildconfig auxiliary program wasn't quoting the value set for
7127 HEADERS_CHARSET. This caused a compilation error complaining that 'ISO' was
7128 not defined. This bug was masked in 4.22 by the effect that was fixed in
7131 2. Some messages that were rejected after a message id was allocated were
7132 shown as "incomplete" by exigrep. It no longer does this for messages that
7133 are rejected by local_scan() or the DATA or non-SMTP ACLs.
7135 3. If a Message-ID: header used a domain literal in the ID, and Exim did not
7136 have allow_domain_literals set, the ID did not get logged in the <= line.
7137 Domain literals are now always recognized in Message-ID: header lines.
7139 4. The first argument for a ${extract expansion item is the key name or field
7140 number. Leading and trailing spaces in this item were not being ignored,
7141 causing some misleading effects.
7143 5. When deliver_drop_privilege was set, single queue runner processes started
7144 manually (i.e. by the command "exim -q") or by the daemon (which uses the
7145 same command in the process it spins off) were not dropping privilege.
7147 6. When the daemon running as "exim" started a queue runner, it always
7148 re-executed Exim in the spun-off process. This is a waste of effort when
7149 deliver_drop_privilege is set. The new process now just calls the
7150 queue-runner function directly.
7156 1. Typo in the src/EDITME file: it referred to HEADERS_DECODE_TO instead of
7159 2. Change 4.21/73 introduced a bug. The pid file path set by -oP was being
7160 ignored. Though the use of -oP was forcing the writing of a pid file, it
7161 was always written to the default place.
7163 3. If the message "no IP address found for host xxxx" is generated during
7164 incoming verification, it is now followed by identification of the incoming
7165 connection (so you can more easily find what provoked it).
7167 4. Bug fix for Sieve filters: "stop" inside a block was not working properly.
7169 5. Added some features to "harden" Exim a bit more against certain attacks:
7171 (a) There is now a build-time option called FIXED_NEVER_USERS that can
7172 be put in Local/Makefile. This is like the never_users runtime option,
7173 but it cannot be overridden. The default setting is "root".
7175 (b) If ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX is defined in Local/Makefile, it specifies a
7176 prefix string with which any file named in a -C command line option
7179 (c) If ALT_CONFIG_ROOT_ONLY is defined in Local/Makefile, root privilege
7180 is retained for -C and -D only if the caller of Exim is root. Without
7181 it, the exim user may also use -C and -D and retain privilege.
7183 (d) If DISABLE_D_OPTION is defined in Local/Makefile, the use of the -D
7184 command line option is disabled.
7186 6. Macro names set by the -D option must start with an upper case letter, just
7187 like macro names defined in the configuration file.
7189 7. Added "dereference=" facility to LDAP.
7191 8. Two instances of the typo "uknown" in the source files are fixed.
7193 9. If a PERL_COMMAND setting in Local/Makefile was not at the start of a line,
7194 the Configure-Makefile script screwed up while processing it.
7196 10. Incorporated PCRE 4.4.
7198 11. The SMTP synchronization check was not operating right at the start of an
7199 SMTP session. For example, it could not catch a HELO sent before the client
7200 waited for the greeting. There is now a check for outstanding input at the
7201 point when the greeting is written. Because of the duplex, asynchronous
7202 nature of TCP/IP, it cannot be perfect - the incorrect input may be on its
7203 way, but not yet received, when the check is performed.
7205 12. Added tcp_nodelay to make it possible to turn of the setting of TCP_NODELAY
7206 on TCP/IP sockets, because this apparently causes some broken clients to
7209 13. Installed revised OS/Makefile-CYGWIN and OS/os.c-cygwin (the .h file was
7210 unchanged) from the Cygwin maintainer.
7212 14. The code for -bV that shows what is in the binary showed "mbx" when maildir
7213 was supported instead of testing for mbx. Effectively a typo.
7215 15. The spa authenticator server code was not checking that the input it
7216 received was valid base64.
7218 16. The debug output line for the "set" modifier in ACLs was not showing the
7219 name of the variable that was being set.
7221 17. Code tidy: the variable type "vtype_string" was never used. Removed it.
7223 18. Previously, a reference to $sender_host_name did not cause a DNS reverse
7224 lookup on its own. Something else was needed to trigger the lookup. For
7225 example, a match in host_lookup or the need for a host name in a host list.
7226 Now, if $sender_host_name is referenced and the host name has not yet been
7227 looked up, a lookup is performed. If the lookup fails, the variable remains
7228 empty, and $host_lookup_failed is set to "1".
7230 19. Added "eqi" as a case-independent comparison operator.
7232 20. The saslauthd authentication condition could segfault if neither service
7233 nor realm was specified.
7235 21. If an overflowing value such as "2048M" was set for message_size_limit, the
7236 error message that was logged was misleading, and incoming SMTP
7237 connections were dropped. The message is now more accurate, and temporary
7238 errors are given to SMTP connections.
7240 22. In some error situations (such as 21 above) Exim rejects all SMTP commands
7241 (except RSET) with a 421 error, until QUIT is received. However, it was
7242 failing to send a response to QUIT.
7244 23. The HELO ACL was being run before the code for helo_try_verify_hosts,
7245 which made it impossible to use "verify = helo" in the HELO ACL. The HELO
7246 ACL is now run after the helo_try_verify_hosts code.
7248 24. "{MD5}" and "{SHA1}" are now recognized as equivalent to "{md5"} and
7249 "{sha1}" in the "crypteq" expansion condition (in fact the comparison is
7250 case-independent, so other case variants are also recognized). Apparently
7251 some systems use these upper case variants.
7253 25. If more than two messages were waiting for the same host, and a transport
7254 filter was specified for the transport, Exim sent two messages over the
7255 same TCP/IP connection, and then failed with "socket operation on non-
7256 socket" when it tried to send the third.
7258 26. Added Exim::debug_write and Exim::log_write for embedded Perl use.
7260 27. The extern definition of crypt16() in expand.c was not being excluded when
7261 the OS had its own crypt16() function.
7263 28. Added bounce_return_body as a new option, and bounce_return_size_limit
7264 as a preferred synonym for return_size_limit, both as an option and as an
7267 29. Added LIBS=-liconv to OS/Makefile-OSF1.
7269 30. Changed the default configuration ACL to relax the local part checking rule
7270 for addresses that are not in any local domains. For these addresses,
7271 slashes and pipe symbols are allowed within local parts, but the sequence
7272 /../ is explicitly forbidden.
7274 31. SPA server authentication was not clearing the challenge buffer before
7277 32. log_message in a "warn" ACL statement was writing to the reject log as
7278 well as to the main log, which contradicts the documentation and doesn't
7279 seem right (because no rejection is happening). So I have stopped it.
7281 33. Added Ard Biesheuvel's lookup code for accessing an Interbase database.
7282 However, I am unable to do any testing of this.
7284 34. Fixed an infelicity in the appendfile transport. When checking directories
7285 for a mailbox, to see if any needed to be created, it was accidentally
7286 using path names with one or more superfluous leading slashes; tracing
7287 would show up entries such as stat("///home/ph10", 0xFFBEEA48).
7289 35. If log_message is set on a "discard" verb in a MAIL or RCPT ACL, its
7290 contents are added to the log line that is written for every discarded
7291 recipient. (Previously a log_message setting was ignored.)
7293 36. The ${quote: operator now quotes the string if it is empty.
7295 37. The install script runs exim in order to find its version number. If for
7296 some reason other than non-existence or emptiness, which it checks, it
7297 could not run './exim', it was installing it with an empty version number,
7298 i.e. as "exim-". This error state is now caught, and the installation is
7301 38. An argument was missing from the function that creates an error message
7302 when Exim fails to connect to the socket for saslauthd authentication.
7303 This could cause Exim to crash, or give a corrupted message.
7305 39. Added isip, isip4, and isip6 to ${if conditions.
7307 40. The ACL variables $acl_xx are now saved with the message, and can be
7308 accessed later in routers, transports, and filters.
7310 41. The new lookup type nwildlsearch is like wildlsearch, except that the key
7311 strings in the file are not string-expanded.
7313 42. If a MAIL command specified a SIZE value that was too large to fit into an
7314 int variable, the check against message_size_limit failed. Such values are
7315 now forced to INT_MAX, which is around 2Gb for a 32-bit variable. Maybe one
7316 day this will have to be increased, but I don't think I want to be around
7317 when emails are that large.
7324 1. Removed HAVE_ICONV=yes from OS/Makefile-FreeBSD, since it seems that
7325 iconv() is not standard in FreeBSD.
7327 2. Change 4.21/17 was buggy and could cause stack overwriting on a system with
7328 IPv6 enabled. The observed symptom was a segmentation fault on return from
7329 the function os_common_find_running_interfaces() in src/os.c.
7331 3. In the check_special_case() function in daemon.c I had used "errno" as an
7332 argument name, which causes warnings on some systems. This was basically a
7333 typo, since it was named "eno" in the comments!
7335 4. The code that waits for the clock to tick (at a resolution of some fraction
7336 of a second) so as to ensure message-id uniqueness was always waiting for
7337 at least one whole tick, when it could have waited for less. [This is
7338 almost certainly not relevant at current processor speeds, where it is
7339 unlikely to ever wait at all. But we try to future-proof.]
7341 5. The function that sleeps for a time interval that includes fractions of a
7342 second contained a race. It did not block SIGALRM between setting the
7343 timer, and suspending (a couple of lines later). If the interval was short
7344 and the sigsuspend() was delayed until after it had expired, the suspension
7345 never ended. On busy systems this could lead to processes getting stuck for
7348 6. Some uncommon configurations may cause a lookup to happen in a queue runner
7349 process, before it forks any delivery processes. The open lookup caching
7350 mechanism meant that the open file or database connection was passed into
7351 the delivery process. The problem was that delivery processes always tidy
7352 up cached lookup data. This could cause a problem for the next delivery
7353 process started by the queue runner, because the external queue runner
7354 process does not know about the closure. So the next delivery process
7355 still has data in the lookup cache. In the case of a file lookup, there was
7356 no problem because closing a file descriptor in a subprocess doesn't affect
7357 the parent. However, if the lookup was caching a connection to a database,
7358 the connection was closed, and the second delivery process was likely to
7359 see errors such as "PGSQL: query failed: server closed the connection
7360 unexpectedly". The problem has been fixed by closing all cached lookups
7361 in a queue runner before running a delivery process.
7363 7. Compiler warning on Linux for the second argument of iconv(), which doesn't
7364 seem to have the "const" qualifier which it has on other OS. I've
7367 8. Change 4.21/2 was too strict. It is only if there are two authenticators
7368 *of the same type* (client or server) with the same public name that an
7369 error should be diagnosed.
7371 9. When Exim looked up a host name for an IP address, but failed to find the
7372 original IP address when looking up the host name (a safety check), it
7373 output the message "<ip address> does not match any IP for NULL", which was
7374 confusing, to say the least. The bug was that the host name should have
7375 appeared instead of "NULL".
7377 10. Since release 3.03, if Exim is called by a uid other than root or the Exim
7378 user that is built into the binary, and the -C or -D options is used, root
7379 privilege is dropped before the configuration file is read. In addition,
7380 logging is switched to stderr instead of the normal log files. If the
7381 configuration then re-defines the Exim user, the unprivileged environment
7382 is probably not what is expected, so Exim logs a panic warning message (but
7385 However, if deliver_drop_privilege is set, the unprivileged state may well
7386 be exactly what is intended, so the warning has been cut out in that case,
7387 and Exim is allowed to try to write to its normal log files.
7393 1. smtp_return_error_details was not giving details for temporary sender
7394 or receiver verification errors.
7396 2. Diagnose a configuration error if two authenticators have the same public
7399 3. Exim used not to create the message log file for a message until the first
7400 delivery attempt. This could be confusing when incoming messages were held
7401 for policy or load reasons. The message log file is now created at the time
7402 the message is received, and an initial "Received" line is written to it.
7404 4. The automatically generated man page for command line options had a minor
7405 bug that caused no ill effects; however, a more serious problem was that
7406 the procedure for building the man page automatically didn't always
7407 operate. Consequently, release 4.20 contains an out-of-date version. This
7408 shouldn't happen again.
7410 5. When building Exim with embedded Perl support, the script that builds the
7411 Makefile was calling 'perl' to find its compile-time parameters, ignoring
7412 any setting of PERL_COMMAND in Local/Makefile. This is now fixed.
7414 6. The freeze_tell option was not being used for messages that were frozen on
7415 arrival, either by an ACL or by local_scan().
7417 7. Added the smtp_incomplete_transaction log selector.
7419 8. After STARTTLS, Exim was not forgetting that it had advertised AUTH, so it
7420 was accepting AUTH without a new EHLO.
7422 9. Added tls_remember_esmtp to cope with YAEB. This allows AUTH and other
7423 ESMTP extensions after STARTTLS without a new EHLO, in contravention of the
7426 10. Logging of TCP/IP connections (when configured) now happens in the main
7427 daemon process instead of the child process, so that the TCP/IP connection
7428 count is more accurate (but it can never be perfect).
7430 11. The use of "drop" in a nested ACL was not being handled correctly in the
7431 outer ACL. Now, if condition failure induced by the nested "drop" causes
7432 the outer ACL verb to deny access ("accept" or "discard" after "endpass",
7433 or "require"), the connection is dropped.
7435 12. Similarly, "discard" in a nested ACL wasn't being handled. A nested ACL
7436 that yield "discard" can now be used with an "accept" or a "discard" verb,
7437 but an error is generated for any others (because I can't see a useful way
7438 to define what should happen).
7440 13. When an ACL is read dynamically from a file (or anywhere else), the lines
7441 are now processed in the same way as lines in the Exim configuration file.
7442 In particular, continuation lines are supported.
7444 14. Added the "dnslists = a.b.c!=n.n.n.n" feature.
7446 15. Added -ti meaning -t -i.
7448 16. Check for letters, digits, hyphens, and dots in the names of dnslist
7449 domains, and warn by logging if others are found.
7451 17. At least on BSD, alignment is not guaranteed for the array of ifreq's
7452 returned from GIFCONF when Exim is trying to find the list of interfaces on
7453 a host. The code in os.c has been modified to copy each ifreq to an aligned
7454 structure in all cases.
7456 Also, in some cases, the returned ifreq's were being copied to a 'struct
7457 ifreq' on the stack, which was subsequently passed to host_ntoa(). That
7458 means the last couple of bytes of an IPv6 address could be chopped if the
7459 ifreq contained only a normal sockaddr (14 bytes storage).
7461 18. Named domain lists were not supported in the hosts_treat_as_local option.
7462 An entry such as +xxxx was not recognized, and was treated as a literal
7465 19. Ensure that header lines added by a DATA ACL are included in the reject log
7466 if the ACL subsequently rejects the message.
7468 20. Upgrade the cramtest.pl utility script to use Digest::MD5 instead of just
7469 MD5 (which is deprecated).
7471 21. When testing a filter file using -bf, Exim was writing a message when it
7472 took the sender from a "From " line in the message, but it was not doing so
7473 when it took $return_path from a Return-Path: header line. It now does.
7475 22. If the contents of a "message" modifier for a "warn" ACL verb do not begin
7476 with a valid header line field name (a series of printing characters
7477 terminated by a colon, Exim now inserts X-ACL-Warn: at the beginning.
7479 23. Changed "disc" in the source to "disk" to conform to the documentation and
7480 the book and for uniformity.
7482 24. Ignore Sendmail's -Ooption=value command line item.
7484 25. When execve() failed while trying to run a command in a pipe transport,
7485 Exim was returning EX_UNAVAILABLE (69) from the subprocess. However, this
7486 could be confused with a return value of 69 from the command itself. This
7487 has been changed to 127, the value the shell returns if it is asked to run
7488 a non-existent command. The wording for the related log line suggests a
7489 non-existent command as the problem.
7491 26. If received_header_text expands to an empty string, do not add a Received:
7492 header line to the message. (Well, it adds a token one on the spool, but
7493 marks it "old" so that it doesn't get used or transmitted.)
7495 27. Installed eximstats 1.28 (addition of -nt option).
7497 28. There was no check for failure on the call to getsockname() in the daemon
7498 code. This can fail if there is a shortage of resources on the system, with
7499 ENOMEM, for example. A temporary error is now given on failure.
7501 29. Contrary to the C standard, it seems that in some environments, the
7502 equivalent of setlocale(LC_ALL, "C") is not obeyed at the start of a C
7503 program. Exim now does this explicitly; it affects the formatting of
7504 timestamps using strftime().
7506 30. If exiqsumm was given junk data, it threw up some uninitialized variable
7507 complaints. I've now initialized all the variables, to avoid this.
7509 32. Header lines added by a system filter were not being "seen" during
7510 transport-time rewrites.
7512 33. The info_callback() function passed to OpenSSL is set up with type void
7513 (*)(SSL *, int, int), as described somewhere. However, when calling the
7514 function (actually a macro) that sets it up, the type void(*)() is
7515 expected. I've put in a cast to prevent warnings from picky compilers.
7517 34. If a DNS black list lookup found a CNAME record, but there were no A
7518 records associated with the domain it pointed at, Exim crashed.
7520 35. If a DNS black list lookup returned more than one A record, Exim ignored
7521 all but the first. It now scans all returned addresses if a particular IP
7522 value is being sought. In this situation, the contents of the
7523 $dnslist_value variable are a list of all the addresses, separated by a
7526 36. Tightened up the rules for host name lookups using reverse DNS. Exim used
7527 to accept a host name and all its aliases if the forward lookup for any of
7528 them yielded the IP address of the incoming connection. Now it accepts only
7529 those names whose forward lookup yields the correct IP address. Any other
7530 names are discarded. This closes a loophole whereby a rogue DNS
7531 administrator could create reverse DNS records to break through a
7532 wildcarded host restriction in an ACL.
7534 37. If a user filter or a system filter that ran in a subprocess used any of
7535 the numerical variables ($1, $2 etc), or $thisaddress, in a pipe command,
7536 the wrong values were passed to the pipe command ($thisaddress had the
7537 value of $0, $0 had the value of $1, etc). This bug was introduced by
7538 change 4.11/101, and not discovered because I wrote an inadequate test. :-(
7540 38. Improved the line breaking for long SMTP error messages from ACLs.
7541 Previously, if there was no break point between 40 and 75 characters, Exim
7542 left the rest of the message alone. Two changes have been made: (a) I've
7543 reduced the minimum length to 35 characters; (b) if it can't find a break
7544 point between 35 and 75 characters, it looks ahead and uses the first one
7545 that it finds. This may give the occasional overlong line, but at least the
7546 remaining text gets split now.
7548 39. Change 82 of 4.11 was unimaginative. It assumed the limit on the number of
7549 file descriptors might be low, and that setting 1000 would always raise it.
7550 It turns out that in some environments, the limit is already over 1000 and
7551 that lowering it causes trouble. So now Exim takes care not to decrease it.
7553 40. When delivering a message, the value of $return_path is set to $sender_
7554 address at the start of routing (routers may change the value). By an
7555 oversight, this default was not being set up when an address was tested by
7556 -bt or -bv, which affected the outcome if any router or filter referred to
7559 41. The idea of the "warn" ACL verb is that it adds a header or writes to the
7560 log only when "message" or "log_message" are set. However, if one of the
7561 conditions was an address verification, or a call to a nested ACL, the
7562 messages generated by the underlying test were being passed through. This
7563 no longer happens. The underlying message is available in $acl_verify_
7564 message for both "message" and "log_message" expansions, so it can be
7565 passed through if needed.
7567 42. Added RFC 2047 interpretation of header lines for $h_ expansions, with a
7568 new expansion $bh_ to give the encoded byte string without charset
7569 translation. Translation happens only if iconv() is available; HAVE_ICONV
7570 indicates this at build time. HEADERS_CHARSET gives the charset to
7571 translate to; headers_charset can change it in the configuration, and
7572 "headers charset" can change it in an individual filter file.
7574 43. Now that we have a default RFC 2047 charset (see above), the code in Exim
7575 that creates RFC 2047 encoded "words" labels them as that charset instead
7576 of always using iso-8859-1. The cases are (i) the explicit ${rfc2047:
7577 expansion operator; (ii) when Exim creates a From: line for a local
7578 message; (iii) when a header line is rewritten to include a "phrase" part.
7580 44. Nasty bug in exiqsumm: the regex to skip already-delivered addresses was
7581 buggy, causing it to skip the first lines of messages whose message ID
7582 ended in 'D'. This would not have bitten before Exim release 4.14, because
7583 message IDs were unlikely to end in 'D' before then. The effect was to have
7584 incorrect size information for certain domains.
7586 45. #include "config.h" was missing at the start of the crypt16.c module. This
7587 caused trouble on Tru64 (aka OSF1) systems, because HAVE_CRYPT16 was not
7590 46. If there was a timeout during a "random" callout check, Exim treated it as
7591 a failure of the random address, and carried on sending RSET and the real
7592 address. If the delay was just some slowness somewhere, the response to the
7593 original RCPT would be taken as a response to RSET and so on, causing
7594 mayhem of various kinds.
7596 47. Change 50 for 4.20 was a heap of junk. I don't know what I was thinking
7597 when I implemented it. It didn't allow for the fact that some option values
7598 may legitimately be negative (e.g. size_addition), and it didn't even do
7599 the right test for positive values.
7601 48. Domain names in DNS records are case-independent. Exim always looks them up
7602 in lower case. Some resolvers return domain names in exactly the case they
7603 appear in the zone file, that is, they may contain uppercase letters. Not
7604 all resolvers do this - some return always lower case. Exim was treating a
7605 change of case by a resolver as a change of domain, similar to a widening
7606 of a domain abbreviation. This triggered its re-routing code and so it was
7607 trying to route what was effectively the same domain again. This normally
7608 caused routing to fail (because the router wouldn't handle the domain
7609 twice). Now Exim checks for this case specially, and just changes the
7610 casing of the domain that it ultimately uses when it transmits the message
7613 49. Added Sieve (RFC 3028) support, courtesy of Michael Haardt's contributed
7616 50. If a filter generated a file delivery with a non-absolute name (possible if
7617 no home directory exists for the router), the forbid_file option was not
7620 51. Added '&' feature to dnslists, to provide bit mask matching in addition to
7621 the existing equality matching.
7623 52. Exim was using ints instead of ino_t variables in some places where it was
7624 dealing with inode numbers.
7626 53. If TMPDIR is defined in Local/Makefile (default in src/EDITME is
7627 TMPDIR="/tmp"), Exim checks for the presence of an environment variable
7628 called TMPDIR, and if it finds it is different, it changes its value.
7630 54. The smtp_printf() function is now made available to local_scan() so
7631 additional output lines can be written before returning. There is also an
7632 smtp_fflush() function to enable the detection of a dropped connection.
7633 The variables smtp_input and smtp_batched_input are exported to
7636 55. Changed the default runtime configuration: the message "Unknown user"
7637 has been removed from the ACL, and instead placed on the localuser router,
7638 using the cannot_route_message feature. This means that any verification
7639 failures that generate their own messages won't get overridden. Similarly,
7640 the "Unrouteable address" message that was in the ACL for unverifiable
7641 relay addresses has also been removed.
7643 56. Added hosts_avoid_esmtp to the smtp transport.
7645 57. The exicyclog script was not checking for the esoteric option
7646 CONFIGURE_FILE_USE_EUID in the Local/Makefile. It now does this, but it
7647 will work only if exicyclog is run under the appropriate euid.
7649 58. Following a discussion on the list, the rules by which Exim recognises line
7650 endings on incoming messages have been changed. The -dropcr and drop_cr
7651 options are now no-ops, retained only for backwards compatibility. The
7652 following line terminators are recognized: LF CRLF CR. However, special
7653 processing applies to CR:
7655 (i) The sequence CR . CR does *not* terminate an incoming SMTP message,
7656 nor a local message in the state where . is a terminator.
7658 (ii) If a bare CR is encountered in a header line, an extra space is added
7659 after the line terminator so as not to end the header. The reasoning
7660 behind this is that bare CRs in header lines are most likely either
7661 to be mistakes, or people trying to play silly games.
7663 59. The size of a message, as listed by "-bp" or in the Exim monitor window,
7664 was being incorrectly given as 18 bytes larger than it should have been.
7665 This is a VOB (very old bug).
7667 60. This may never have affected anything current, but just in case it has:
7668 When the local host is found other than at the start of a list of hosts,
7669 the local host, those with the same MX, and any that follow, are discarded.
7670 When the list in question was part of a longer list of hosts, the following
7671 hosts (not currently being processed) were also being discarded. This no
7672 longer happens. I'm not sure if this situation could ever has previously
7675 61. Added the "/MX" feature to lists of hosts in the manualroute and query
7678 62. Whenever Exim generates a new message, it now adds an Auto-Submitted:
7679 header. This is something that is recommended in a new Internet Draft, and
7680 is something that is documented as being done by Sendmail. There are two
7681 possible values. For messages generated by the autoreply transport, Exim
7684 Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
7686 whereas for all other generated messages (e.g. bounces) it adds
7688 Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
7690 63. The "personal" condition in filters now includes a test for the
7691 Auto-Submitted: header. If it contains the string "auto-" the message it
7692 not considered personal.
7694 64. Added rcpt_include_affixes as a generic transport option.
7696 65. Added queue_only_override (default true).
7698 66. Added the syslog_duplication option.
7700 67. If what should have been the first header line of a message consisted of
7701 a space followed by a colon, Exim was mis-interpreting it as a header line.
7702 It isn't of course - it is syntactically invalid and should therefore be
7703 treated as the start of the message body. The misbehaviour could have
7704 caused a number of strange effects, including loss of data in subsequent
7705 header lines, and spool format errors.
7707 68. Formerly, the AUTH parameter on a MAIL command was trusted only if the
7708 client host had authenticated. This control can now be exercised by an ACL
7709 for more flexibility.
7711 69. By default, callouts do not happen when testing with -bh. There is now a
7712 variant, -bhc, which does actually run the callout code, including
7713 consulting and updating the callout cache.
7715 70. Added support for saslauthd authentication, courtesy of Alexander
7718 71. If statvfs() failed on the spool or log directories while checking their
7719 size for availability, Exim confusingly gave the error "space shortage".
7720 Furthermore, in debugging mode it crashed with a floating point exception.
7721 These checks are done if check_{spool,log}_{space,inodes} are set, and when
7722 an SMTP message arrives with SIZE= on the MAIL command. As this is a really
7723 serious problem, Exim now writes to the main and panic logs when this
7724 happens, with details of the failure. It then refuses to accept the
7725 incoming message, giving the message "spool directory problem" or "log
7726 directory problem" with a 421 code for SMTP messages.
7728 72. When Exim is about to re-exec itself, it ensures that the file descriptors
7729 0, 1, and 2 exist, because some OS complain for execs without them (see
7730 ChangeLog 4.05/30). If necessary, Exim opens /dev/null to use for these
7731 descriptors. However, the code omitted to check that the open succeeded,
7732 causing mysterious errors if for some reason the permissions on /dev/null
7733 got screwed. Now Exim writes a message to the main and panic logs, and
7734 bombs out if it can't open /dev/null.
7736 73. Re-vamped the way daemon_smtp_port, local_interfaces, and -oX work and
7737 interact so that it is all more flexible. It is supposed to remain
7738 backwards compatible. Also added extra_local_interfaces.
7740 74. Invalid data sent to a SPA (NTLM) server authenticator could cause the code
7741 to bomb out with an assertion failure - to the client this appears as a
7742 connection drop. This problem occurs in the part of the code that was taken
7743 from the Samba project. Fortunately, the assertion is in a very simple
7744 function, so I have fixed this by reproducing the function inline in the
7745 one place where it is called, and arranging for authentication to fail
7746 instead of killing the process with assert().
7748 75. The SPA client code was not working when the server requested OEM rather
7749 than Unicode encoding.
7751 76. Added code to make require_files with a specific uid setting more usable in
7752 the case where statting the file as root fails - usually a non-root-mounted
7753 NFS file system. When this happens and the failure is EACCES, Exim now
7754 forks a subprocess and does the per-uid checking as the relevant uid.
7756 77. Added process_log_path.
7758 78. If log_file_path was not explicitly set, a setting of check_log_space or
7759 check_log_inodes was ignored.
7761 79. If a space check for the spool or log partitions fails, the incident is now
7762 logged. Of course, in the latter case the data may get lost...
7764 80. Added the %p formatting code to string_format() so that it can be used to
7765 print addresses in debug_print(). Adjusted all the address printing in the
7766 debugging in store.c to use %p rather than %d.
7768 81. There was a concern that a line of code in smtp_in.c could overflow a
7769 buffer if a HELO/EHLO command was given followed by 500 or so spaces. As
7770 initially expressed, the concern was not well-founded, because trailing
7771 spaces are removed early. However, if the trailing spaces were followed by
7772 a NULL, they did not get removed, so the overflow was possible. Two fixes
7775 (a) I re-wrote the offending code in a cleaner fashion.
7776 (b) If an incoming SMTP command contains a NULL character, it is rejected
7779 82. When Exim changes uid/gid to the Exim user at daemon start time, it now
7780 runs initgroups(), so that if the Exim user is in any additional groups,
7781 they will be used during message reception.
7787 The change log for 4.20 and earlier releases has been archived.